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Why some people were abolitionists?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

A mix of religious and political conviction - and the insistence that 'Men are born equal' did not just mean white men.

The publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' at the time when the Fugitive Slave Law was polarising Northern opinion, swelled the ranks of the Abolitionists.

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15y ago

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