Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
Slavery in America can be traced as far back as when Europeans began settling the North American continent. The first town established in the New Worlrd was Jamestown in 1607, and the first slave arrived on the continent in 1619. European pioneers that colonized North America brought slaves with them to help settle the new land, work their plantations growing valuable cash crops such as tobacco and sugar, and to cook and clean in their homes. Most people didn’t see slavery as a problem at this time because it was quite rare in the New World with only a few wealthy landowners who owned slaves, however, public opinion would be swayed.
Abolitionists first started appearing in America at about ...
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of slaves were being treated inhumanely and tortured. This disgust of southern slave-owners compelled a few abolitionists to act out in extreme measures, but the majority used peaceful protest methods. They used different methods to fight for their cause; fanatics went to the utmost of their power in killing the opposition, while others pacively handed out pamphlets and flyers in protest, or participated in the Underground Railroad.
One fanatic abolitionist who, in this writer’s opinion, just went too far is a man named John Brown. Brown’s anti-slavery efforts are most well-known for his raid on the Us weapons arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, 1859.
Brown was born on May 9th 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, and grew up in Ohio. During his adult life Brown had trouble holding down a steady job due to business reverses and and charges of illegal practices which followed him from the 1820’s and on, but by the 1850’s he became deeply intertested in the slavery issue.
Brown and five ...
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was wounded. Arrested and charged with treason, Brown was hung on Dec. 2, 1859.
William Lloyd Garrison was another abolitionist, however he did not go to the extremes that John Brown went to to free slaves. Born in Newburyport, Massassachusetts on December 12th 1805, Garrison was seen by many as the epitome of the American abolitionist movement. Initially an advocate of moderate abolitionism while coediting Benjamin Lundy's weekly Genius of Universal Emancipation, Garrison soon began more deeply felt attacks on slavery.On January 1, 1831, he published the first issue of the Liberator, declaring slavery to be an abomination in God's sight, demanding immediate emancipation of the slaves, ...
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