gradual, colonization and immediate emancipation
The abolitionists were members of the growing band of reformers who worked to abolish, or end, slavery.
abolitionists were mostly from the northern states because in the south slaves were used to work but in the north they had free labor.
It greatly angered the Abolitionists - remembering that most Northerners were not Abolitionists by any means.
There are still abolitionists to this day, because there is still slavery. (For example, it is estimated that 15-20% of the Mauritanian population is made of slaves.
abolitionists
The American Experience - 1988 The Abolitionists - Part 3 24-11 is rated/received certificates of: USA:TV-PG
no the couldn't be or else they wouldn't be abolitionists no the couldn't be or else they wouldn't be abolitionists
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Abolitionists
abolitionists
Most of the abolitionists supported the Underground Railroad because most of the abolitionists wanted to end slavery.
yes she was an American abolitionists and womans right activists.
The opposite of abolitionists would be slaveholders, or those who were pro-slavery.
Union - though most Unionists were never Abolitionists
As with any political group such as the abolitionists in the US before the US Civil War, there was, without a doubt one clear issue of disagreement. Most abolitionists were not violent people. In contrast there were some wealthy and middle class Northerners who favored violence in order to free slaves. Thus, despite the raid on Harper's Ferry by radical John Brown, most abolitionists and most Americans did not favor violence. There were wealthy elite types of abolitionists such as the ones in New England who funded John Brown. Somehow they escaped prosecution as Brown left documentation at the farm he bought with funds supplied by the New England group of abolitionists. The documents named names yet they were untouched by law enforcement.
Northern abolitionists.
Abolitionists wanted to end Slavery