The Missouri Compromise/The Fugitive Slave Act/Kansas-Nebraska Act: How many more acts will they pass in this country. I would be much easier to make one act abolishing slavery than making three to confine the limits of slavery. The Missouri Compromise Worked with the Fugitive Act in allowing slave owners to cross state lines to retrieve their "property", only after show satisfactory evidence to a court of law. The Missouri Compromise, in order to please people who were against slavery, admitted California as a free state in this country and stopped slave trading in the District of Columbia (but not slavery). The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people living in the Kansas/Nebraska Territories to vote on whether they wanted to be a free state or a slave state. Abolishing slavery seem to me to be the best choice, also the easiest instead of having to pass so many laws.
The Great Postal Campaign: This was a nice idea, but was not thought through. The Great Postal Campaign was a way, in the word of Lewis Tappan, " to sow the good seed of abolition thoroughly over the whole country". The campaign used the United States Postal Service to send anti-slavery pamphlet and newpapers to the entire country, causing an uprise in the southern white community. The organizers of this event should have thought about the reaction they woud have recieved from these people and what they would do to change it. But honestly I wouldn't know how to change it either.
The Amistad Court Case: What a great case!! This was an exciting and historical case, when I read about it in the Liberator, I began to weep. A group of men captured form their home in Africa, overthrew the crew of the Amistad. They demanded to be sailed back to Africa, but were instead sailed to Long Island, New York and were arrested. With help of Lewis Tappan, took the captain of that ship to court and even presented their case to the highest court of the land, The Supreme Court and won their freedom. They were sent back to their home. This is one of many steps that need to be taken in order to fulfill our dream in having a completely free country!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
People I Know
William Lloyd Garrison: A very good friend of mine. A very important and influential figure in the abolition community, he was not only another person to be inspired by, but was also a comrade, who I was well acquainted with. We along with the many other people involved in this movement, worked vigoruosly to persuade people to believe that the abolishment of slavery was a necessity.
James Forten and Robert Purvis: My admirable grandfather and uncle were both my inspiration to be an abolitionist. Coming from a long line of prominent abolitionists has instilled in the need to help my fellow brethren, and do as much as I can to free them from bondage.
Maria Weston Chapman: Maria and I met through Mr. Garrison, some years ago. When we started working together to have women speak their mind about anti-slavery efforts, we began to found societies. Our efforts were so persisent, for lack of better words, she became part of the executive board for the American Anti-Slavery Society, and I joined multiple societies along with this one.
The Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society: This society is part of my blood. Many relatives are members of this society. My grandmother Charlotte Forten (my namesake) and my aunts Margaretta Forten, Sarah Puris and Harriet Purvis helped found the society in 1833. My grandfather James Forten also did a tremendous amount of work for the society as well.
James Forten and Robert Purvis: My admirable grandfather and uncle were both my inspiration to be an abolitionist. Coming from a long line of prominent abolitionists has instilled in the need to help my fellow brethren, and do as much as I can to free them from bondage.
Maria Weston Chapman: Maria and I met through Mr. Garrison, some years ago. When we started working together to have women speak their mind about anti-slavery efforts, we began to found societies. Our efforts were so persisent, for lack of better words, she became part of the executive board for the American Anti-Slavery Society, and I joined multiple societies along with this one.
The Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society: This society is part of my blood. Many relatives are members of this society. My grandmother Charlotte Forten (my namesake) and my aunts Margaretta Forten, Sarah Puris and Harriet Purvis helped found the society in 1833. My grandfather James Forten also did a tremendous amount of work for the society as well.
Take A Journey...
You can learn about the society, that the woman in my family instilled so much of their time, passion, effort, and hard work into.
Take a trip, to walk in the home that I once lived in.
Who is Charlotte Forten?
As a woman , I represent a person who is dedicated to bettering my fellow kinsman. Living in a time where we were at the bottom of the ranks, I acquired a drive in me to make a difference. I am Charlotte Forten Grimke. All my life i was constantly surrounded with intellects and activists. I was born into a very wealthy family of black abolitionists. My grandparents were James and Charlotte Forten, very prominent figures in the abolitionists movement. My aunts, Sarah, Harriet, and Margaretta Forten established the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Majority of my childhood, I lived in Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem, I attended predominantly white schools; Higginson Grammar School and the Salem Normal School. After teaching at the Epes School in 1856, I rushed back to my hometown of Philadelphia because I had tuberculosis. I went to St. Helena Islands in South Carolina, to an abandoned plantation to open up a school. With about 150 free black children, we all packed ourselves into a small baptist church. After two years, I had to leave because I became sick again. When the Civil War was finally over I had a job that helped ex slaves find jobs and housing. On December 19, 1878, I married my companion, Francis Grimke. He was a law student and minsiter. His church was the home to push all of his civil right ideas. As I continued to fight for the education and equality of African Americans, I was called on home in 1914.
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