The Anti-Slavery Movement
Slavery was an event that has been going on for many years. It caused many problems, therefore some people knew it had to be stopped. The Anti-Slavery Movement began during the 1700s in Europe and later on it spread to the United States. In the U.S. there were many abolitionist leaders that were aiming to abolish slavery and some also aimed to give the slaves their rights. Many of those abolitionist leaders formed anti-slavery societies that included people who were against slavery. There was a very important event that happened during the anti-slavery movement. This event is the Underground Railroad. Frederick Douglass was a very important African-American figure during the anti-slavery movement. The document that ended slavery was the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery had persisted for many years. It caused protest, rebellion, and social and civil war because many people were against slavery and wanted to end it. Before the eighteenth century, the Quakers questioned the morality of slavery. Their religion declared that slavery was unfair. In 1775, the Quakers made the first American anti-slavery group. The Quakers led a very strong-held ban against slavery. Many abolitionists were inspired from the Quakers' fight against sl
avery. By the 1830s abolitionism became a major political issue in the U.S. The Quakers began to fight against slavery in the 1600s, and so did the beginning of the anti-slavery movement also known as the abolitionist movement. "They debated, made speeches, and preached to many people."1 Although many Quaker leaders opposed slavery, they owned slaves. In 1780, Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolishment of slavery, and during this time all Quakers became against slavery and they joined the abolishment movement. The abolishment movement began because of the Quaker's involvement in anti-slavery. Frederick Washington Bailey was the son of a white man and a black slave. He was "a Maryland-born mulatto of fine frame and intelligence."6 He was born in Tukahoe, Maryland on February 7, 1817. He lived on a plantation with his grandmother, until he was eight years old. Then he got sent to Hugh Auld in Baltimore. The wife of Auld taught him how to read. In 1833 Frederick returned to his Maryland plantation after Auld had died. He escaped to New York in 1838 and then changed his name to Frederick Douglass. Later, he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a laborer. When William Lloyd Garrison heard Douglass make a speech at a meeting in 1841, he arranged for him to become an agent and lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1845, he published his autobiography, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Fearing to be recaptured by his former owner, Douglass traveled to Britain where he lectured on slavery. In Britain he raised enough money to establish his own anti-slavery newspaper, the North Star. "During the Civil War Douglass, a Radical Republican, tried to persuade President Abraham Lincoln that former slaves shou
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