Troublemakers, Radicals, and Liberators. The abolitionists tore the nation apart trying to make it into a more perfect federation. Men and women of all races contributed their time and belief into the most important civil rights crusade in American history. The Abolitionist Movement was predominant in its role regarding the emancipation of slavery and racial segregation.
The Abolitionist Movement was an organization that wanted the result in the immediate emancipation of slavery and the abolishment of racial segregation and discrimination. Abolitionists raised an abundance of controversy in the North and South leading to the Civil War. The movement did not come together as a effort until the 1830’s, in earlier time the North went through troubles …show more content…
Garrisonians counseled Northerners into refusing to vote in a way to show their disapproval of the “proslavery” Constitution. The Garrisonians also upheld reform including the extension of women’s rights. Some male abolitionists were against the role of female abolitionists. Many of the men held antifeminist views while some others feared the comeback of the antislavery and the unpopular cause of gender equality. The men and women who were non-Garrisonians ended up contributing their time to a more religious type of movement, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. These abolitionists gained and abundance of valuable allies, such as the Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians antislavery movements. Until the end of the Civil War abolitionists continued to crusade …show more content…
They agitated the fellowship issue for the religious publication societies. The other type of abolitionists were the political leaders reformers. The non-Garrisonians went for a more political view on reform of slavery. These abolitionists petitioned legislatures and interrogated political candidates of slavery-related issues. One of their parties is the Liberty Party, the wanted an “immediate abolition of slavery and for the repeal of all racial discriminatory legislation on political and moral grounds”. The Liberty Party wanted to pursue emancipation through partisan politics. Abolitionists were deeply divided over the Liberty Party. The Garrisonians wanted to condemn any political activity is implied endorsement for the legality of slavery. The 1840s had events that fostered the growth of Northern antislavery sentiment. For many black reformers, slave rebellion and resistance was a fundamental component of their activism. The influence combined between the Garrisonians, the religious abolitionists, and the political abolitionists helped to provoke the Southern secession in 1861. The secession led to many religious denominations to show the corruption and how moral slaveholding is, and for the reason to endorse