Henry David Thoreau


Personal Information
· I was born the 12th of July in 1817
· I was born in Concord Massachusetts
· I studied and graduated at Harvard University and Concord Academy
· I have written Walden and Civil Disobedience
· I have provided a new way of looking at life, and being able to stand back and decide what I was meant to live for.
Issues
· I was very much against slavery and having to be ruled and governed by an unjust government
· I believe that a person should stand up for what they believe in. A person should live their life the way they want it, and need not be bound by the rules of government, nor be afraid to by judged and just.
· I found my motivation by leaving to a cabin near a pond and experiencing nature firsthand, apart from the pressures of the world
Solutions
· I am able to say that my solution for slavery and an unjust government is to be just. As I once said, “Under a government that prisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.”


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David Walker

Personal Background:

• I was born on September 27, 1785.
• I died on June 28, 1830.
• I was born in Wilmington, North Carolina.
• My father was a slave, but my mother was a free African American.
• I had been found dead at my home, some people say that I had been poisoned others say the cause of my death was tuberculosis.
• I had not attended school, therefore had no education.
• At an early age I taught myself how to read and write.
  
• I am African American.
• I am an Abolitionist.
• In 1826 I had settled in Boston Massachusetts and there I became a writer for the first African American newspaper, the Freedom's Journal.
• In the 1820's I had set up a used clothing store in Boston.
• I had written and published the pamphlet Walker's Appeal, or also known as The Appeal on September 1829.

Issues:

• I had grown up to despise and have much hatred for the system of slavery that the American government allowed in America.
• I had been very concerned about many social issues concerning and affecting free and enslaved Africans in America.
  
• I expressed many beliefs such as: unified struggle for resistance of oppression (slavery), land reparations, self-government for people of African descent in America, racial pride, and a critique of American capitalism.

Solutions:

• I had written The Appeal to the enslaved men and women of the South advocate a black rebellion and crush slavery. I had also written the pamphlet to remind African Americans that they are all American and they should be treated fairly too. My articles called for vengeance against white men, but I also had expressed the hope that their cruel behavior toward blacks would change, and if so then having vengeance would be unnecessary. The message I was sending to the slaves was that: if liberty is not given you, rise in bloody rebellion.
• My Appeal had horrified whites and slaveholders both in the North and South. In result, laws were initiated that forbade African Americans to learn how to read and had banned the distribution of antislavery literature. Louisiana executed a bill ordering expulsion of all freed slaves who had settled in the state after 1825. In addition, I was worth $3,000 if found dead and $10,000 if found alive and brought to the South.

Relationship to Others:

• Nat Turner led his bloody rebellion in 1831 as a result of Walker's Appeal and had forevermore frightened the men of the South.
  
• Most abolitionists had disagreed with my advice to the slaves because I was insisting on resorting to violence in order to obtain freedom.
  
• William Lloyd Garrison, a white abolitionist, believed in having an immediate emancipation of slavery but thought it could be accomplished through persuasion and argument, did favor the spirit of the Appeal, however, and ran large portions of it, together with his own review, in his paper, the Liberator.

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Lydia Marie Child

Personal Background:

· I was born February 11, 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts (United States)

· I attended the public schools in my town and a year seminary. My greatest motivation came from my brother who was a clergy man and a professor of Harvard Divinity School.

· I spent my life writing books. I was owned a private school in Watertown, Mass in the years of 1825-28. I married David Lee Child who was a Boston Lawyer and we both joined the abolitionist.

· I began to work with anti- slavery in 1831.

· I was a women’s right activist but I believed that to help the women I must fist end slavery.

· I believe that women can achieve more by working side by side with men.

· I along with many other female abolitionist started campaigning for equal female membership in the American Anti-Slavery Society.

· I was the first to write a book in support to the policy of immediate emancipation of the slaves. It was the first anti-slavery book printed in America.

· I was the founder of the women’s suffrage association.

Issues:

· I struggled with many movements involving women's right and slave abolition. My goal was to free the slaves because once that had happened then women was have a grater chance of succeeding. Women and slaves were viewed the same by white men, they were property instead of human beings. I wanted to change that view. Women are capable of working with men. My husband and I strongly felt that something had to be done. I was excluded from society because they believed my values were wrong.

Solutions:

· We organized several campaigns against slavery and for women’s rights. Fund raised for slavery movements. I wrote numerous amounts of book on both subjects. I was excluded from society because they believed my values were wrong. No matter how much people hated what I was doing, I was willing to stand for what I believed in.

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Angelina Grimke

Personal Background:

• I was born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 20, 1805.
• I died on October 26, 1879 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
• I am an American anti-slavery crusader and women's rights advocates.
• I was educated at home.
• I was influenced by my sister, Sarash, and became a Quaker and an abolitionist.
• I published a letter against slavery in 1835.

Issue(s) and Solution(s):

• I believe slavery should not exist, and women should have equal rights in society.
• I became one of the first women to lecture for American Anti-Slavery Society
• I was attacked for speaking in public because I'm a woman.
• It became necessary to fight equally for women's rights.
• I speak and write about the oppression of slaves and women.
• I published an abolitionist pamphlet, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, which condemned slavery as a violation of Christianity, human law, and the Declaration of Independence.

Relationship to Other(s):

• Temperance: It should be stopped because women should get the rights they deserved like men.
• Abolition: Slavery should be removed because it is against human rights and religion.
• Women's Rights: Women should have equal rights as men and not be controlled by anyone but them selves.
• Education: I think education is important and necessary for women; thus, they can educate their children.
• Prison Reform: I support this because I fight for anti-slavery but also for equality, too.
• Utopian Communities: This community will give women equality and giving them their rights.
• Transcendentalism: I do agree transcendentalists should go against anyone who is doing anything unjust like abolition and going for free religion.
  

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal Background:

• I was born in 1803 in Boston.
• At age 14 I enrolled in Harvard University
• At age 23 I became Unitarian Minister
• At age 29 I resigned from the ministry due to lack of faith
• I am dubbed the Father of Transcendentialism
• I preached non-conformity to Americans all over the country

Issues:

• Transcendentialism:
• One must be true to themselves and not conform to society
• I've gone on to influence many worthy men: Henry Thoreau, and Theodore
  Parker

• Slavery:
• Slaver is a "de-stitution"
• "Emancipation is the demand of civilization."
• Slavery MUST be abolished

Solutions:

• Transcendentialism:
• The only way to help society is for people to realize who they are.
  A true man is original
• "To immitate is to commit suicide."

• Slavery:
• voted for Lincoln in 1860
• I became a republican
• "I will not obey it!" (in reference to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850)
  

http://Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson (1981); B. L. Packer, Emerson's Fall (1982); Stephen E. Whicher, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1953).

http://http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_biography.htm

Angelina Grimke

Bio:

• Was born February 20, 1805
• Was born in Charleston, South Carolina
• I was educated at home, I considered going to Hartford but ended up not going
• I was born into a prominent slave-holding family, but I rebelled against my heritage
• I became America's first female abolition agents
• Joined Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1835
• I am one of many figures of national prominence
• Published a letter in "The Liberator"
• In 1836, I wrote a famous abolitionist pamphlet called, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South.

Issue:

• Whether slavery should exist
• I stood firmly by my belief that slavery should not exist. It is cruel and inhumane.
• The source of my motivation it that slavery is a morally deficient system that violates Christian law and human rights.

Solutions:

• Step up and voice your opinions. Fight for what you believe it right.
• I have been successful in voicing my opinion and having it published.
• I've been put down by the Quaker community and even by my own sister that shared the same views as me.
• I was criticized for speaking in public.

Relationship to others:

• Woman's rights- I believe that woman should have the same rights as the men. Accompanied by my sister, Sarah Grimke, we fight for our right to speak. Many men abolitionist tell us to be quiet and that we can deal with woman rights at a later time, but I think that the time to assert a right is the time when that right is denied.
• Education- I think it is extremely important for woman to have an education.
• Temperance- Should come to an end because it puts woman in harms way.
• Abolition- Slavery was evil and it should end.
• Prison Reform- I am for it because I agree with Dorothea Dix in fighting for equality.
• Utopian Communities- I am for Utopian Communities because it would give woman more equality and I am all for woman rights.
• Transcendentalism- I agree with people that go against something that is unjust.

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