The nation suddenly became alert, the nation suddenly had an opinion, and the nation suddenly cares. The abolitionist movement had a great impact on the nation. The abolitionist movement got the nation’s attention unlike the anti-slavery movement. The anti-slavery movement and the abolitionist movement have the same idea but each have a different purpose. There were many staunch supporters to Abolitionism, being stern and uncompromising enemies of slavery. Anti-Abolitionism, almost costing William Lloyd Garrison his life, also persuaded some members of the movement that they needed a stronger approach to get their point across.
Anti-slavery and abolitionism were not always the same thing. Anti-slavery really cared about keeping slavery out of their territory and keeping it a country for whites. This is where the idea of them standing for free soil came from. William Lloyd Garrison called them white-manism. The ACS organized by white Virginians trying to compromise a gradual freeing of slaves, fund raising through private charity or funds appropriated by state legislatures for the slaves’ masters. The American Colonization Society would then export the slaves out the country and help them find a new society on their own somewhere else. The ACS started to die out private or public funding wasn’t enough to pay the master and move the slaves out of the country. The African Americans themselves started to disagree with the ACS, they did not want to move to a land they knew nothing about, and many of them were now three or more generations removed from Africa. By 1830 the ACS failed to meet their goal which seemed to be to keep the west a country for whites. Abolitionist cared not only for the slaves’ freedom they cared about them bein...
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...ld Garrison they would hang him, authorities locked Garrison in jail to save his life. When angry whites invaded Elijah Lovejoy office three times smashing his stuff and he rebuild everything again three times, he was not lucky the fourth he was shot and killed. Anti-abolitionism only made the Abolitionist try harder to end slavery.
Why did Abolitionism change the nation? People knew slavery was wrong, some just needed a movement to go out there and end slavery, it was blacks trying to end slavery only, and some whites started did and got blacks and other whites. Anti-slavery being what it really is could not succeed it was too expensive and would not ever succeed due to the slaves not knowing the land. Anti-abolitionism was violence, abolitionist leaders were violent with their words but they were speaking the truth. The nation is now aware.
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The abolitionist movement reached its peak between 1830 and 1860. During this period, abolitionists, those who "insisted slavery undermined the freedom, righteousness, order, and prosperity of all society" (McInerney, 8) sought to identify, denounce and abolish this cruel institution using their rights of free speech and free press. With free press and free speech "abolitionists depicted slavery as raw, aggressive power carrying in it's wake the seeds of political, social, economic, and moral dislocation" (McInerney, 18). In other words, the evils of slavery were expressed by abolitionists in an attempt to convince American society that slavery was not only morally wrong, but it also went against the goal of the republic, which was liberty and equality for all. Two prominent abolitionists during this period who utilized the right of free press were William Lloyd Garrison with the Liberator and Frederick Douglass with the North Star. When examining Garrison and Douglass it is apparent that they had different approaches to writing against slavery because of their separate background. However, these differences can also be attributed to the fact that their writing audiences, inspirations and motivations for publishing their respective papers were distinct. Garrison and Douglass also had different but very influential effects on the Abolitionist Movement. These do not make Garrison and Douglass opponents; instead they demonstrate how white and black abolitionists had different approaches, methods, and styles of conveying their common message of abolishing slavery.
The scope of the investigation is limited to the Second Great Awakening and the American Abolitionist Movement from 1830-1839, with the exception of some foundational knowledge of the movement prior to 1830 to highlight the changes within the movement in the 1830s. The investigation included an exploration of various letters, lectures, and sermons by leading abolitionists from the time period and a variety of secondary sources analyzing the Second Great Awakening and the Abolitionist Movement from 1830-1839.
The Liberator, by William Garrison, and Frederick douglass, a black slave, during the 19th century were things that had provoked the minds of America to become aware of the need to abolish slavery. Frederick Douglass had been known for his leadership in the abolishment of slavery; and The Liberator, a weekly newspaper founded by William Garrison, was known for sending this message about promoting the freedom of the enslaved blacks of America. Having subscribed to this newspaper, it gave him reasons to do the things that he was known for (Russell). It impacted him by making him become more aware of the terrible acts of slavery; it made him have the urge to contribute by helping other’s who were blinded by propaganda to understand the immorality of slavery; and, one of the most important reasons of all of all, it caused him to become one of the most commonly known activists of slavery’s abolition.
Abolitionism quickly gained popularity since 1821 when William Lloyd Garrison assisted in writing an anti-slavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, with Benjamin Lundy. In 1831, abolitionism continued to grow in popularity when William Lloyd Garrison started The Liberator. Although there remained not a need for slaves in the North, slavery remained very big in the South for growing “cash crops.” The majority of the abolitionists who inhabited the North organized speeches, meetings, and newspapers to spread their cause. Initially, only small revolts and fights occurred. However, major events along the way led to the Harpers Ferry Raid. For example, with Kansas choosing whether or not to become a free or slave state. That became the biggest event up until John Brown’s Raid. John Brown had always despised slavery, and this enhanced his chance as an organized revolt. The effect of his raid on Harpers Ferry affected what the South thought about abolitionists and the power that they held.
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The abolitionist movement caused major impact on the nation as a whole compared to the antislavery movement before the 1830s. This was due to the major support received in the 1830s by all the leaders that arouse at this time. The commotion caused by all the propaganda published during this movement. As well as the spark left in the nation by the antislavery movement in the nation before 1830s.
The abolishment of slavery was not an overnight occurrence and many events led to the increase of support to do away with slavery. Even though the preceding events before the abolitionist movement of 1830 did have support, they only had a minority and did not connect the nation as a whole like the revolution did. The revolution of 1830 had a greater impression on the entire nation than the movements prior to 1830 because of William Lloyd Garrison and the various ways he transformed abolition, the influence of black abolitionists, and the advent of abolitionist politics.
The antebellum American antislavery movement began in the 1820s and was sustained over 4 decades by organizations, publications, and small acts of resistance that challenged the legally protected and powerful institution of slavery and the more insidious enemy of black equality, racism. Abolitionists were always a radical minority even in the free states of the North, and the movement was never comprised of a single group of people with unified motivations, goals, and methods. Rather, the movement was fraught with ambiguity over who its leaders would be, how they would go about fighting the institution of slavery, and what the future would be like for black Americans.
Black and white abolitionists shared common assumptions about the evil of slavery, the "virtue of moral reform", and the certainty of human progress"(1). Schor, Garnet,1877, & Lanngston, 1989). This shared understanding provided "the basic for the interracial solidarity" and cooperation so vital in the crusade against slavery"(2). (Schor and Garnet, 1877). But blacks also brought a distinct perspective to the antislavery movement. Their abolitionism was shaped profoundly by their personal experience and racial oppression. Unlike most white abolitionists, they conceived of antidlavery as an all-encompassion struggle for racial equality, and they took a more pragramatic, less doctrinaire approach to antislavery tactics. The contrast between the two abolitionists -- black and white -- become increasingly apparent in the 1840s and 1850s as black expressed a growing militancy, asserted greater independence, and called for racially exclusive organization and initiatives.
Abolitionists were people in the mid-1800s who dedicated themselves to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Almost completely northern-based, abolitionists dealt with strong opposition in the early years of their moral campaign, most of that opposition coming from southern-folk. Among these great reformers were Frederick Douglass, a freed slave who became literate, and William Lloyd Garrison, a very radical abolitionist who converted many people to abolitionism. Slavery propaganda floating about in the mid-1800s displayed slaves pleading, “Am I not a Woman and a Sister? (Document C)” and, “Am I not a Man and a Brother?” which exemplified the push for equality among races (whites and blacks in particular), liberty, justice, and life—all core democratic values—that the Abolitionists were trying to achieve. Given the intentions of...
The antislavery movement caused no effects in the nation. In actuality they tried to find a way to not disturb Southerners. However it had no strength and faded. Now the abolitionist movement was a major reminder of how slavery was dividing America. The abolitionists were not people who did not make political commitments lightly. They were more inflamed and provoked powerful opposition.
Much like Andrew Jackson, the Abolitionists were able to “steal a page” from Jackson’s “book” and recreate their own version of Jackson’s individuality. The Abolitionists were culturally and socially distanced because of their “radical” view. The Abolition movement allowed numerous social activists to voice the immoral implications of slavery. The bold men and women of the Abolition movement stressed the idea of equality of the races, which was a sentiment that was not shared among many outside of the movement itself. The never-ending debate on the issue of slavery was prominent and plentiful across the states but few believed in abolition much less total and indefinite equality of the slaves. The minority of Americans were Abolitionists, but their cause allowed moral reforms to be heard. Nevertheless, this reform movement was solely based on an individual’s “moral compass”. In Fredrick Douglass’ “Letter ‘to My Old Master,’” he states, “… I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal persons. What you are I am. You are a man, and so am I.— God created both, and made us separate beings. I am not by nature bound to you, or you to me.” Fredrick Douglass gives a perfect statement on the meaning of the Abolition movement, all men are created by God equally and should be treated as so. Through Douglass’ statement one can see how individualism and reform ideals are capable of allowing
Abolitionism was an issue between the North and South and had been debated in Congress long before the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening was like a wake up call that slavery was morally wrong and that something had to be done a soon as possible to correct it. The Awakening inspired northerners to take a stand on slavery and confront southerners about this problem. Before, Northerners really did not care about what was going on in the south, as long as they got their cotton to use in the textile mills and could work they were fine. They did not care about slavery because it...
Slavery thus became an increasingly Southern institution. Abolition of slavery in the North, begun in the revolutionary era and largely complete by the 1830s, divided the United States into the slave South and the free North. As this happened, slavery came to define the essence of the South: to defend slavery was to be pro-Southern, whereas opposition to slavery was considered anti-Southern. Although most Southern whites did not own slaves (the proportion of white families that owned slaves declined from 35 percent to 26 percent between 18...
It may appear that in today’s America, slavery is looked down upon, and we’ve developed a long way from the past. However, before and during the Abolitionists Movement there were strong arguments for both sides of the subject. ("Arguments and Justifications: The Abolition of Slavery Project.") The gradual dominance in anti-slavery would not have been possible if people had not risked their lives and social standings to fight for the racial, social, legal, and political liberation for slaves. William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and the Grimke sisters are all prime examples of people who challenged pro-slavery, and protested the idea that one race was superior to another. Although abolitionists fought for their beliefs during this movement in the 1830s up to the year 1870 for the immediate emancipation of slaves, the ending of racial prejudice and segregation would not be possible if not by the influence of those courageous people, and should continue to be reinforced in today’s society. ("Civil Rights Movement.")