Uzbek state world languages university

Theme 3: LITERATURE OF ABOLITIONISM

Plan:

1. 
   Abolitionism as a social movement.
   
2. 
   The Civil War in America.
   
3. 
   Harriet Beecher-Stowe
   
4. 
   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   

Abolitionism was the movement, which was directed at the abolishment of slavery at the Southern States of America. From the beginning of the 19^th century these Southern States began to play great role in the political life of the USA. The North of America was industrial. The plantation owners wanted to have more and more territories. In the West, there were free lands and the plantation owners claimed their hands to new territories.
There were sharp contradictions between industrial North and slavery South. The progressive elements of bourgeoisie in the North opposed the claims of slave- owners and they started the movement of abolitionism. In the 30-ties, there were a number of Negro uprisings. Most of them were led by a farmer-abolitionist, John Brown. He led an uprising in 1859. It was defeated. And John Brown was hanged but his name is popular even now among the broad masses of people. The contradictions became sharper and sharper and were resulted in Civil War 1861- 1865. The immediate cause of this war was the election of Abraham Lincoln to the post of the American President. He was a sworn enemy of slavery. This aroused the dissatisfaction in Southern States. When he was elected there was a revolt in the South. Two Armies were formed, of the Southerners and the Yankee Army. That war lasted during 5 years. It was ended by the victory of the North and the abolition of slavery. Under the banner of abolition all progressive people of America were united and they began to publish an abolitionist paper “The Liberator”. It was started by William Garrison. The paper exposed the slave- owners of the South.