ABOLITIONISM is a movement to end slavery.
The reason abolitionist movement was emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. A group of people try to restrict slavery to existing area and prevent its spread further west. Abolitionist ideas become increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 19 century and that brought the conflict between North and South leading up to the civil war. The abolition fight for the African-American slaves a group of people decide to stop and those was Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth.
The abolitionists created something called Underground Railroad and that is a secret routes and safe houses for black slaves in the United State to scape and go to Canada just over 5,000 court cases for escaped slaves recorded. At that time emerged a Second Great Awakening led massive revivals in the 1820s have a boost to the subsequent emergence of abolitionism and the other important event that happen at that time was the supreme court's Dred Scott decision declares blacks, free or slave, have no citizenship rights.
ABOLITIONISM is a movement to end slavery.
The reason abolitionist movement was emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. A group of people try to restrict slavery to existing area and prevent its spread further west. Abolitionist ideas become increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 19 century and that brought the conflict between North and South leading up to the civil war. The abolition fight for the African-American slaves a group of people decide to stop and those was Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth.
The abolitionists created something called Underground Railroad and that is a secret routes and safe houses for black slaves in the United State to scape and go to Canada just over 5,000 court cases for escaped slaves recorded. At that time emerged a Second Great Awakening led massive revivals in the 1820s have a boost to the subsequent emergence of abolitionism and the other important event that happen at that time was the supreme court's Dred Scott decision declares blacks, free or slave, have no citizenship rights.
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