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Abolitionism in the United States became a popular expression of moralism, [67] operating in tandem with other social reform efforts, such as the temperance movement, [68] [69] and much more problematically, the women's suffrage movement. The white abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers, especially William Lloyd Garrison ...
The abolitionist movement was strengthened by the activities of free African Americans, especially in the Black church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament. African-American activists and their writings were rarely heard outside the Black community.
The abolitionist American Anti-Slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia. The movement soon splits into five factions [85] that do not always agree but which continue to advocate abolition in their own ways. [91] [107] [108] Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child of Massachusetts publishes An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
The new book "The Color of Abolition" chronicles the movement that pushed for an end to slavery and the abolitionists who led the campaign. Author Linda Hirshman joined CBS News' Anne-Marie Green ...
He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York and gained fame for his oratory [4] and incisive antislavery writings.
Read More: The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an Abolitionist. Now fully embracing the cause of “immediate emancipation,” Garrison republished Rankin’s letters in The ...
William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, and the American Anti-Slavery Society to call for abolition. A controversial figure, Garrison often was the focus of public anger. His advocacy of women's rights and inclusion of women in the leadership of the society caused a rift within the movement.
Outside influences shaped the intellectual attitude of the Liberty Party, especially after 1844. The abolitionist movement existed within what Ronald G. Walters called a "reform tradition" in American history; many abolitionists, including Liberty leaders, were active in the early feminist, temperance, nonresistant, and utopian socialist movements.