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27 Οκτ 2009 · The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
As the nation expanded in the 1830s and 1840s, the writings of abolitionists—a small but vocal group of northerners committed to ending slavery—reached a larger national audience. White southerners responded by putting forth arguments in defense of slavery, their way of life, and their honor.
8 Οκτ 2024 · Abolitionists argued that slavery was a social and moral evil that harmed not only the slaves but their owners and society as a whole. Slaves were brutalized and lived in fear and...
27f. The Southern Argument for Slavery. Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments.
Pro-slavery arguments emerged as a response to growing abolitionist sentiments in the North during the early 19th century, attempting to justify the continuation of slavery. Many proponents of slavery argued that it was essential for the economic prosperity of the South, emphasizing how cotton production relied heavily on enslaved labor.
Learn about the abolitionist movement, from its roots in the colonial era to the major figures who fought to end slavery, up through the Civil War. In his 1937 mural, John Stewart Curry painted abolitionist John Brown in full cry.
M. Flanders's The Ebony Idol (1860) attempted to expose the inherent racism of the abolitionist movement. In her novel, a New England abolitionist rues the day he invites a young emancipated slave, Caesar, into his household when Caesar's eventual engagement to a young white woman ends in mob violence and death.
