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Why did the North react negatively to the radical abolitionists?
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∙ 8y ago
They regarded them rather as we might regard the Green lobby - a small but vocal group with a lot of influence, and claiming the moral high ground.
Most Northerners were not passionately anti-slavery, though the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not spark-off the rush of Abolitionist fervour that he hoped for.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 8y agoMost Americans usually then and now do not favor "radical" policies. At the time of the Abolitionists, it was the states' laws that allowed for slavery. Later the US Supreme Court endorsed slavery. The American public was not "ready" for the immediate end of slavery in the antebellum days. They saw it as disruptive and even causing national divisions. It cannot be overstated that slavery had been part of the US since before it was an nation. And, on an international basis, slavery of one type or another had almost always existed.The morality of the abolitionists was noble and courageous.
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