Rita Squitiere Garrison and his followers had failed to convert the slaveholders. "We believe the great victory will follow before long," he wrote home to his wife. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Kate Lyn Sheil):Don't they all? A new country, a new constitution, a new history is going to come out of this. Collection of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania But scattered around the country, a few lonely souls were convinced that slavery was a crime against God and man. He had many more black supporters than white supporters. And I think this is very appealing to anti-slavery Northerners who are really giving up almost on the political system and on nonviolent resistance. He's up here! The Abolitionists | American Experience | PBS In Cleveland, he spoke to three large rallies in a single day, standing for hours in a cold rain. Lois Brown, Historian:Garrison has to resolve this tension between clearly unapologetic armed resistance and strategy and maneuver, with pacifism and moral suasion. In 1837, for example, a mob attacked and killed the antislavery editor Elijah P. Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois. Narrator:Uncle Tom's Cabintriggered a wave of defiance to the Fugitive Slave Law. How're you gentleman doing this nice, warm Kentucky day? By 1846 to 1847, Douglass was a household name in the United States. A few months earlier, scores of abolitionists had descended on New York for a training session. The Amstel House, New Castle, DE On the 21st of May, 1856, a posse of 800 Southerners surrounded the free soil capital of Lawrence, Kansas. John Wicker, Set Medics Nina Kuhn You lost all the fluids in your body, you were wracked by convulsions, and there was nothing that anybody could do. That's a sea change. Charmaine Crowell-White Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Historian:It's an expos about, of course, the horrible treatment of slaves. Tell us everything you heard -- slowly. Angelina Grimk (Jeanine Serralles):I speak the truth in love. They opened the eyes of thousands and put their families . She kept the children close to home, and maintained a cheerful disposition. The New Bedford Whaling Museum James Corrado My father was a white man -- it was whispered that my master was my father, but of this I know nothing. Grimk was unflinching in her own account. R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Historian:Northerners become convinced that Southerners are hell-bent on moving slavery to every part of the country. Within months, he was thrown in prison for vilifying a slave trader. Josh Allen Martha Newman Kristen Barry That was what they wanted. On the first page of the first issue of his newspaper, Garrison declared, "There shall be no neutrals; men shall either like or dislike me.". If that happened, the balance of power in Washington would shift against the slave states. Narrator: For years, John Brown had been trying to divine God's purpose, to make sense of his afflictions. And now, at last, John Brown was on his way to war, in Kansas. Gathia Gillespie Chris Paz There could be little doubt that Brown would follow them. And now, a new battleground was opening up, on America's western frontier. The Republican didn't want Garrison's endorsement -- in fact, any connection to the controversial printer would be political poison. Buy the entire bundle for only $2.98. John Brown (T. Ryder Smith):As I said, the spark -- we are but the spark. And when they tell her to stop talking to men, she says, "No, I have a right.". But Grimk had no intention of returning to the South. His eulogy was more than a memorial to one man. Others, like Prosser, Vesey, and Turner, were black men and women who had been born into a life of slavery HARRIET BEECHER STOWE In 1811, Harriet Beecher was born in Connecticut. John Chiarolanzio. Dani Scarcella, First Assistant Camera Now, the brightest and steadiest of all the shining hosts of our moral sky has silently and peacefully descended below the distant horizon.
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