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The Boston Massacre Who/What/When/Where/Why

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=Foundations of Government and Civic Participation:=

Founding Fathers

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PBU Immigration



Flight to Freedom

Abolition Speeches: For the following three speeches, either listen or read. Then on the back of your Cocept/Event Map please make a list of the strengths and weaknesses of these speeches.

Speech #1: John Wesley...Abolitionist...Leader of the Methodist Church
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Speech #2:
//**William Lloyd Garrison:** Main leader of the movement to get rid of slavery immediately, he created an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator" in 1831 in Boston and published this for the next 35 years, until slavery was finally abolished.//

"To the Public" Published in //The Liberator//, 1831

I am a believer in that portion of the Declaration of American Independence in which it is set forth, as among self-evident truths, "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Hence, I am an abolitionist. Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form – and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing – with indignation and abhorrence. Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle. They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defense, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul. I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object. Convince me that one man may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer subscribe to the Declaration of Independence. Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire. I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.

Speech #3
//Frederick Douglas...A former slaved who escaped slavery twice, he eventually settled in Boston and used his strong intelligence, education and public speaking skills to encourage others to end slavery.//

"The Meaning of July Fourth to the Negro" 1852

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival....

=Chapter 10 and 11=