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The '''abolitionists''' were those who were actively against [[slavery]]. The term usually refers to the abolitionist movement in the [[United States]] and in [[Britain]]. The northern states in the U.S. abolished slavery 1777-1803, and the British Empire abolished it in the 1830s in its Caribbean colonies. The American [[abolitionist movement]] reached its peak 1840-1865; it avchieved success during the [[American Civil War]] when slavery was ended and outlawed. The forces that were lined up for the continuation of slavery were strong and numerous; the abolitionists were few in number and had no political power before 1860 but were guided by a strong religious belief and the moral need to right a horrible wrong.
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Abolitionists argued that the action of capturing Africans and selling them as slaves was as bad as the capture and selling of Joseph had been.  Pro-slavery spokesmen pointed out that the Bible repeatedly endorsed slavery and denounced the abolitionists for trying to start a race war that would kill many thousands of blacks and whites, as happened in [[Haiti]] in the 1790s.
 
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Historians debate whether the abolitionists ignited a frenzy that led to a war with 600,000 deaths that could have been avoided. [[Neoabolitionist]]s are 20th century historians who used the moral themese of the original abolitionists to rewrite history in terms of the evils of slavery and racism.
 
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==Famous Abolitionists==
 
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*[[John Brown]]
 
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*[[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]
 
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*[[Levi Coffin]]
 
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*[[Frederick Douglass]], black leader
 
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*[[Sojourner Truth]], black leader
 
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*[[Harriet Tubman]], black leader
 
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*[[Charles Finney]]
 
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*[[William Lloyd Garrison]]
 
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*[[William Wilberforce]], in Britain
 
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==See Also==
 
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*[[Abolitionism]]
 
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*[[Second Great Awakening]]
 
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==Further reading==
 
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* Stewart, James Brewer. ''Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Warriors-Abolitionists-American-Slavery/dp/080901596X/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241017691&sr=8-13 excerpt and text search]
 
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* Lowance, Mason, ed. ''Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader'' (2000) 384pp; primary sources [http://www.amazon.com/Against-Slavery-Abolitionist-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140437584/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241017836&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
 
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[[Category:American Civil War]]
 
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[[Category:Slavery]]
 

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