Day+1+Activities

Abolitionist Leaders

(handwrite this on your own paper!)
 * __DO NOW:__**

What makes a speech effective? What makes someone a good speaker?

__**Activity 1 - Listen to an Abolitionist Speech ** __

You will listen to a reenactment of a speech given by John Wesley in 1788. He founded the Methodist religion and was one of the first abolitionists in England. The British Empire formally ended the slave trade in 1807.

__Directions:__ - Open the "**I Hear/It Means Document**" below - Go to File then **'Save As'** - save the document IN YOUR OWN FOLDER - Click on the "**Back**" button at the top of your browser - Open **Microsoft Word**, then open your "I Hear/It Means" document - With headphones, **listen** to the Wesley clip below several times (make sure you adjust the volume on your laptop - use the buttons right above the keyboard) - **While** you listen, **record** significant information in the **"I Hear"** column

**Think/Write/Pair/Share:**
Next in the analysis chart: > > > > [|Wesley Audio Clip] > >
 * complete the "**It Means"** column by yourself
 * complete the "**Summary"** by yourself
 * with your partner pair/share your responses
 * revise as needed (directions for the rest of the assignment in the document)

 __** Activity 2 - Jigsaw Activity with Primary Source Documents ** __

In this activity, you will analyze an assigned primary source document with a small group, then share this information with other students. Read the directions for this activity first, and then find and read your chosen document which is below the directions on this page.

__Directions:__ 1). The table of four desks you are sitting in will be your **"Home Group"** 2) In your home group, **assign each person a number, 1-4** 3). Each of you will be assigned **one speech** to read and analyze:
 * 1s will read William Lloyd Garrison
 * 2s will read Frederick Douglas
 * 3s will read Angelina Grimke
 * 4s will read Sojourner Truth

4). Once you have been assigned a number and a document, you will **find the other students who have the same speech as you** and move to sit with them at another station - **bring your laptops** - BE CAREFUL 5). Think-Write-Pair-Share - directions in next activity

__**Activity 3 - Read and analyze one of the following abolitionist speeches - APPARTS **__



__In your groups:__
 * -Think/Write**
 * Open the document below
 * Find and read your assigned speech below on this page
 * Complete the **APPARTS chart** in two-column note format.

- **Pair/Share**
 * respond to comments, connections, questions, predictions and inference
 * revise as needed
 * write down all discussion points

- Was it effective? What qualities make it a good speech?

//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.//
 * __Speech 1 - William Lloyd Garrison__**

"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. media type="file" key="William Lloyd Garrison.mp3" (as read by Craig Ramsey '09)

//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.//
 * __Speech 2 - Frederick Douglas__**

"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....



__**Speech 3 - Angelina Grimke**__ //Born and raised with a slaveowning family in South Carolina, Angelina and her sister Sarah both became leaders for women's rights and abolition. Their outspoken beliefs caused their neighbors in the south to dislike them, and they eventually moved to the North to continue their goal to end slavery.//

Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall, 1838

As a Southerner I feel tbrt it is my duty to stand up here to-night and bear testimony against slavery. I have seen it -- I have seen it. I know it has horrors that can never be described. I was brought up under its wing: I witnessed for many years its demoralizing influences, and its destructiveness to human happiness. It is admitted by some that the slave is not happy under the //worst// forms of slavery. But I have //never// seen a happy slave. I have seen him dance in his chains, it is true; but he was not happy. There is a wide difference between happiness and mirth. Man cannot enjoy the former while his manhood is destroyed, and that part of the being which is necessary to the making, and to the enjoyment of happiness, is completely blotted out. The slaves, however, may be, and sometimes are, mirthful. When hope is extinguished, they say, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." [Just then stones were thrown at the windows, -- a great noise without, and commotion within.] What is a mob? What would the breaking of every window be? What would the levelling of this Hall be? Any evidence that we are wrong, or that slavery is a good and wholesome institution ? What if the mob should now burst in upon us, break up our meeting and commit violence upon our persons -- would this be any thing compared with what the slaves endure? No, no: and we do not remember them "as bound with them," if we shrink in the time of peril, or feel unwilling to sacrifice ourselves, if need be, for their sake. [Great noise.] I thank the Lord that there is yet life left enough to feel the truth, even though it rages at it -- that conscience is not so completely seared as to be unmoved by the truth of the living God.

//Born Isabella Baumfree as a slave in New York, she lived under slavery for 30 years until it was formally ended in New York. She became a preacher and changed her name to Sojourner, and claimed that her religion guided her to speak to others to try to end slavery everywhere.//
 * __Speech 4 - Sojourner Truth__**

Excerpt from Sojourner Truth Speech, 1852

Children, I talks to God and God talks to me. I goes out and talks to God in the field and in the woods. Dis morning I was walking out and I got over da fence. I saw da wheat holding up its head. It was very big. And I goes up to it, and takes hold of it, and you believe it, there was no wheat dere. I says God! What is the matter with this wheat. He says, Sojourner, there is a little weasel in it. Now I’s here’s talking about the Constitution, and da rights of man. I comes up and I takes hold of dis Constitution. It looks mighty big, and I feels for my rights. But there isn’t any dere. Den I says to God, “What Constitution?” And he says to me, “Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it." media type="file" key="Sojourner Truth speech.mp3" (as read by a Malden student '09)

__**Activity 4 - Back to Home Groups to share information **__

- Go back to your **"Home Group"** - Open the **Abolitionist graphic organizer** below - **Share information** about your abolitionist with your Home Group - **Write down key points** for each abolitionist on the graphic organizer while your partners share their information



- **SAVE** your documents and then **print** them out.