2.  Escaped from slavery
 Wrote: Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave (1845)
 Started his own abolitionist newspaper:
The North Star
 Leader in abolitionist movement
 A powerful and talented speaker

3. Frederick talks about how his arguments
against slavery are based on the harm it
does to the humans being enslaved. He
brings up the fact that his views are not
shared by everyone who opposes
slavery.

5. [The Liberty Party] makes a clean sweep of slavery
everywhere. It denies that slaver is, or can be
legalized. It denies that the Constitution of the United
States is a pro-slavery instrument, and asserts the
power and duty of the Federal Government to abolish
slavery in every State of the Union. Strictly speaking, I
say this is the only party in the country which is an
abolition party…

6. …the Liberty Party, by its position and doctrines, and by
its antecedents, is pledged to continue the struggle
while a bondman in his chains remains to weep. Upon
its platform must the great battle of freedom be fought
out- if upon any short of the bloody field. It must be
under no partial cry of "no union with slaveholders;"
nor selfish cry of "no more slavery extension;" but it
must be, "no slavery for man under the whole
heavens."

7. The slave as a man and a brother, must be the vital and
animating thought and impulse of any movement,
which is to effect the abolition of slavery in this
country. Our anti-slavery organizations must be
brought back to this doctrine, or they will be scattered
and left to wander, and to die in the wilderness, like
God's ancient people, till another generation shall
come up, more worthy to go up and possess the land.

9.  Slavery was big-business
 It made rich whites richer, and poor whites poorer
 All the good land would go to the rich slave owners
 Slavery wasn’t good for industrial progress
 Industrial workers could buy stuff made in their factory, thus
helping the company grow
 Slaves didn’t get money, so they couldn’t buy stuff
 Slavery pushed wages down for the working class
 With the ‘free’ labor source of slavery to compete with,
working class whites could only hope for very low wages
 Big-business slave plantations could sell their products at
lower prices than independent farmers could

11. More free states would
mean the North would
have more power in
Congress
…to decide issues like…

12. North South
Industrial Agrarian
Anti-
Federalists
Federalists
Tariffs No tariffs

15. North South
HELPED HURT
NORTHERN SOUTHERN
ECONOMY ECONOMY
British imports Southerners had
became too to pay more for
expensive industrial goods
People bought Britain bought
goods made in less cotton from
U.S.A. South

16. Hmmm…
 What were Frederick Douglass’ arguments against
slavery?
 What were some of the other arguments against
slavery? (big business) (working class whites)
 What is a tariff?
 Why were southerners upset about tariffs?
 What did you learn about how slavery related to the
Civil War?

17.  Pictures of Frederick Douglass
 http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdfdoug.htm
 http://www.robinlea.com/wordpress/2011/03/15/power-
concedes-nothing-without-a-demand-frederick-
douglas/
 Tariff diagram
 http://www.mrvanduyne.com/jackson/html/tariff.htm
 Tariff of Abominations video clip
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVur0cRs7A
 (clip art from Microsoft Works)