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The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
Pennington raised funds for the abolition movement on the public lecture circuit in England. Pennington wrote and published what is considered the first history of blacks in the United States, The Origin and History of the Colored People (1841). [2] His memoir, The Fugitive Blacksmith, was first published in 1849 in London.
The Spanish refused to return them back to the United States. More freedom seekers traveled through Texas the following year. [103] Enslaved people were emancipated by crossing the border from the United States into Mexico, which was a Spanish colony into the nineteenth century. [104] In the United States, enslaved people were considered property.
Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
Abolitionism had roots similar to the temperance movement. The publishing of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin , in 1852, galvanized the abolitionist movement. Most debates over slavery, however, had to do with the constitutionality of the extension of slavery rather than its morality.
According to the Encyclopedia of Slavery and Abolition in the United States, Weld held the positions of Manager, 1833–1835, and Corresponding Secretary, 1839–1840. [36] Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography states that "in 1836 he...was appointed by the American Anti-slavery Society editor of its books and pamphlets." [37]
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1840) was an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century."During its brief history ... it orchestrated three national women's conventions, organized a multistate petition campaign, sued southerners who brought slaves into Boston, and sponsored elaborate, profitable fundraisers."