Radical Resistance
This term describes the policy of advocating for immediate action to achieve a goal
What is Immediatism?
This 1822 conspiracy involved 6,000 enslaved and free Black people in Charleston planning to seize arsenals and possibly sail to Haiti.
What was Vesey’s Conspiracy?
This strategy aimed to change minds about slavery using ethics, morality, and religion instead of violence.
What is Moral Suasion?
This 1829 pamphlet urged Black people to resist slavery by any means, including violence.
What is David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
The Baltimore alliance of free Black abolitionists influenced this early American movement.
What is the anti-slavery movement?
These two Baltimore abolitionists developed Immediatism before William Lloyd Garrison popularized it.
Who are William Watkins and Jacob Greener?
This 1831 revolt, the bloodiest in U.S. history, killed around 55–65 white people and led to harsher restrictions on Black education and assembly.
What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This major abolitionist organization used moral suasion, mass media, and petitions to Congress.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)?
This 1827 newspaper was the first African American owned and operated publication in the U.S.
What is Freedom’s Journal?
This third-party abolitionist group was a precursor to the Free Soil Party of 1848.
What is the New York Liberty Party?
This man, once enslaved and later free, delivered the radical “Address to the Slaves” in 1843
Who is Henry Highland Garnet?
This enslaved blacksmith planned to capture Richmond and hold Governor James Monroe hostage to bargain for freedom.
Who was Gabriel, leader of Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800)?
The AASS faced censorship, mob attacks, and this congressional rule that barred debate on anti-slavery petitions.
What was the Gag Rule?
Freedom’s Journal was founded by these two men and declared, “We wish to plead our own cause.”
Who are Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm?
The idea of Black Nationalism was promoted by this escaped enslaved man.
Who is Henry Highland Garnet?
This early third-party political organization was formed in 1840 after a split among abolitionists over strategy.
What is the New York Liberty Party?
This 1842 rebellion led by Madison Washington occurred aboard the ship Creole, where enslaved men seized control and gained freedom in the Bahamas.
What was the Creole Rebellion?
This method of persuasion was resisted in both the North and South by slavery supporters who feared moral and political disruption.
What is Moral Suasion?
This Quaker abolitionist published The Genius of Universal Emancipation in Baltimore.
Who is Benjamin Lundy?
The call to “address the daily urgency of living and dying under slavery” summarized this movement’s core philosophy.
What is Radical Resistance?
This 1843 speech by Garnet called for enslaved people to resist, declaring “To such degradation it is sinful in the extreme for you to make voluntary submission.”
What is the “Address to the Slaves”?
These revolts demonstrated that enslaved people used direct action and violence when necessary to fight for liberty.
What are examples of radical resistance to slavery?
These abolitionists, like Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, spread moral suasion through lectures and publications.
Who were abolitionist lecturers and writers?
This Frederick Douglass newspaper became one of the most successful and influential pre–Civil War Black papers, advocating abolition and women’s rights.
What is The North Star?
This early 1800s publication and activism from Baltimore tied free Black abolitionists to national anti-slavery networks.
What is the Baltimore Alliance?