After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.

Douglass ' change of position on the Constitution was one of the most notable incidents of the division in the abolitionist movement after the publication of Spooner's book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1846.

His friendship with Thomas Clarkson – abolitionist campaigner and the first historian of the British abolition movement – aroused his interest in slavery.

Religious beliefs, however, have also been associated with some left-wing movements, such as the American abolitionist movement and the anti-capital punishment movement.

Letter from Webster to daughter Eliza, 1837, warning of perils of the abolitionist movement

In the 1860s, David Livingstone's reports of atrocities within the Arab slave trade in Africa stirred up the interest of the British public, reviving the flagging abolitionist movement.

He became active in the abolitionist movement and lectured on slavery throughout the northeastern United States, on nearly two dozen occasions in the years before and during the American Civil War ..

Still, the abolitionist movement began to gain ground in this period.

During the following decades, the abolitionist movement grew in northern states, and Congress limited the expansion of slavery in new states admitted to the union.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902 ) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement.

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, many prominent voices in the abolitionist movement distanced themselves from Brown, or damned him with faint praise.

Thoreau's speech proved persuasive: first the abolitionist movement began to accept Brown as a martyr, and by the time of the American Civil War entire armies of the North were literally singing Brown's praises.

As part of the movement to end slavery in the US, Goulden welcomed American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher when he visited Manchester.

Since then, many writers have credited this novel with focusing Northern anger at the injustices of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law and helping to fuel the abolitionist movement.

Union general and politician James Baird Weaver said that the book convinced him to become active in the abolitionist movement.

Others within the abolitionist movement argued for conventional, aggressive masculine action.

Dissatisfied with the pacifism encouraged by the organized abolitionist movement, he said, " These men are all talk.

Seward ’ s wife Frances was deeply committed to the abolitionist movement.

Lane County was named after James H. Lane who was a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement and served as one of the first U. S. Senators from Kansas.

In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War.

Some of the earliest sweatshop critics were found in the 19th century abolitionist movement that had originally coalesced in opposition to chattel slavery, and many abolitionists saw similarities between slavery and sweatshop work.

Ultimately, the abolitionist movement split apart.

Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery, and supported the abolitionist movement in the United States.

Andrews travelled to England where he was unsuccessful at raising funds for the abolitionist movement back in America.

Olympe de Gouges (; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793 ), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience.

He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

It is likely that Tubman was by this time working with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.

Union General David Hunter worked with Tubman during the American Civil War | Civil War and shared her abolitionist views.

The virile father of the abolitionist serial and first book edition degenerated into a decrepit old man, and with that transformation the character lost the capacity for resistance that had originally given meaning to his choices.

Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam ( 1944 ) provides a fictionalised look at Anna Leonowens's years at the royal court, developing the abolitionist theme that resonated with her American readership.

It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial in National Era, an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, 1851, issue.

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

Employees of Morris L. Hallowell, the outspoken Philadelphia abolitionist were threatened with lynching but escaped with their lives, i. e. Thomas W. Sweney visiting in Atlanta and T. Russel Dawson where he lived in Norfolk, Virginia.

Unlike some of his fellow Union officers who came from abolitionist families, he was opposed to federal interference with slavery.

After abolitionist movements led by such people as Samuel de Missy, the slave trade of La Rochelle ended with the onset of the French Revolution and the war with England in the 1790s, the last La Rochelle slave ship, the Saint-Jacques being captured in 1793 in the Gulf of Guinea.

After failing to purchase the freedom of his family and himself, and with the help of abolitionist legal advisers, Scott sued Emerson for his freedom in a Missouri court in 1846.

Lane is the site where in 1856, John Brown ( abolitionist ) and 4 other of his followers hacked 3 pro-slavery men to death with broadswords near Pottawatomie Creek.