Andrew Jackson. FAIL Andrew Jackson OWNED slaves. Who taught you history? This is why this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Andrew Jackson supported slavery. The Congressman you are looking for is Lincoln and many others in the soon to be created Republican Party.....
Abraham Lincion
They were called Abolitionists.
Abraham Lincoln
Loyalists
jack
they wanted to end slavery
January, 1863 is when they tried to end slavery.
abolitionism is the movement to end slavery, and the emancipation proclamation is the document that ended slavery.
Because if you end the source in which slavery comes from, then you can eventually end all of slavery.
jack
William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator.
i have no clueOn the other hand, I do know, and the answer isFrederick Douglass.
He campaigned against slavery.
he wrote a book on slavery, and campaigned against it, in 1838 slavery was abolished
They were against it, and usually campaigned actively to have it abolished.
Abolition means to get rid of something, to discard, rescind or do away with. In the context of US history, is means to do away with slavery. People who campaigned to end slavery were known as abolitionists.
Because he had campaigned on the promise of not allowing any extension of slavery.
they wanted to end slavery
I am having trouble composing a level headed answer to this one: Surely you, the Questioner do not advocate it continuing ? People campaigned for its ending because it is morally repugnant to have ownership of another. I hope we can all agree on that.
January, 1863 is when they tried to end slavery.
Slavery officially ended in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. Other countries around the world also abolished slavery at different times through legislative acts or decrees.