Abolition Movement

• Abolitionists were people who wanted to destroy slavery.
• The Abolition Movement first came about in the early 1830s.
• The American Anti-Slavery Society brought in thousands of people with petition drives and printed material that spoke about the immorality of slavery.
• The goal of the abolitionists was to emancipate the slaves and to end racial segregation and discrimination.
• Religious groups wanted to end slavery because they believed that it was sinful practice.  They also believed that it was morally wrong.
• Preachers like Nathaniel Taylor and Lyman Beecher led religious revivals in the 1820s to try to get people to see how wrong slavery was.  This was called the Second Great Awakening.
• William Lloyd Garrison published a newspaper called "The Liberator".  This paper criticized slavery and talked about how wrong it was.  It was heavily supported by free African Americans.  They also spoke about how racial prejudice was also wrong. 
• This newspaper angered many slavery supporters.
• The Abolition Movement ended in 1865 since abolitionists didn't really need to protest slavery anymore because it had ended after the Civil War, but their mission hadn't been completed. 
• Their mission had been completed when African Americans were finally given the right to vote.

Works Cited:

http://afgen.com/abmovement.html

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/brief.htm

Mr. Anthony

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