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    The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed when the need for more action to be taken for the equality of blacks. For the first time there was actually a large organized group of people working towards the same outcome, which was freedom for all blacks. One thing that they greatly opposed was the idea of free black people being sent back and colonized in Africa. To the white people that idea might sound better, sending all of the problems away back to where they came from. This would allow them

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    against slavery and for women’s rights. The participants were the American Anti-Slavery Society. The two major participants were abolitionist William Garrison and his opponents Lewis Tappan who had a dispute about the women’s rights and slavery. This event took place between the two national anti slavery societies in 1840 in London. To describe one of the many reasons why the group split apart. “The showdown came in 1840 at the national convention of the American Anti-slavery society, when

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    end towards slavery. This group is called the American Colonization Society. If the support from local and state branches, churches, and federal government are contributing to provide funds to this cause, it is one way to prove that this is something that should happen. Think about it, African Americans could enjoy all the advantages of society, self-government, eligibility to office, and freedom from the degradation arising from an inferiority of caste. I strongly disagree with slavery. It is clear

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    These actions acted by the American Anti-Slavery Society had provoked extensive unfriendly responses from North and South. This led to violent mobs that rebelled in destroying any abolitionist literature and the passage “gag rule” formed by the U.S. House of Representatives that had banned consideration of antislavery petitions. Among these riots was the murder in 1837 of abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, which distributed fear in many people in the North worrying about protecting their own civil

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    Summary: The Great Divide

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    of all slaves and to end the racial discrimination that African Americans faced. Although the politics of abolition were different amongst the men who sought the freedom of slaves. Some sought immediate emancipation while others were more moderate and argued for the gradual release of slaves. In addition to radical abolitionists and moderate abolitionists a group calls “free Soil” abolitionists fought to contain the spread of slavery into new western territories. Radical abolitionists such as William

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    During the mid 1800s, the issue of slavery and its expansion had become a major controversial element of American history, resulting in the transpiration of the Civil War. Between the years of 1861 and 1865, conflict between the North and South had emerged, causing bloodshed at America’s most dominant period of history. Throughout the year 1861, intense conflict between the North and South over issues of states’ liberties, federal power, westward expansion, and slavery had impelled the Civil War. By

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    Slavery Essay Slavery was ongoing in the southern states. In the 1800’s many white slave owners believed that the African Americans were inferior to them despite the fact that “”all men are created equal”. They were forced into labor and treated like property. The slave owners justified their behavior and believed they acted caring and conscientious to their slaves. Truthfully, however, the slaves were mostly treated very badly, as Fredrick Douglas, a black slave, testifies. There were select

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    The Abolition Movement

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    the North after 1840 and raised issues leading to the Civil War. Yet, these two expressions of hostility to slavery were often closely related not only in their beliefs and their interaction but also in the minds of southern slaveholders who finally came to consider the North as united against them in favor of black emancipation. Although abolitionist feelings had been strong during the American Revolution and in the Upper South during the 1820s, the abolitionist movement did not turn into a violent

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    Abolitionist Movement

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    later become part of their culture and it later spread to enslaving African-Americans. African-Americans were seen as people that were stronger and more hard working than the Native Americans. This led to African-Americans getting captured and being sent to America to work.

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    The modern American abolition movement emerged in the early 1830s as a by-product of religious revivalism popularly known as the Second Great Awakening. Revivalistic tenets led abolitionists to see slavery as the product of sin and to demand emancipation as the price of repentance. A tenet is a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true; especially one held in common by members of an organization, movement, or profession. Abolitionists recognized that slavery received moral support

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