In 1860, Hunter was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and he began a correspondence with Abraham Lincoln, focusing on Hunter's strong anti-slavery views.

After graduation from Harvard University, Conway accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church of Washington, D. C., where he was ordained in 1855, but his anti-slavery views brought about his dismissal in 1856.

Mainly because of his strong anti-slavery views, Welles shifted allegiance in 1854 to the newly-established Republican Party, and founded a newspaper in 1856 ( the Hartford Evening Press ) that would espouse Republican ideals for decades thereafter.

However, for much of his youth and education, he was under the influence of teachers and friends with strong anti-slavery views.

Just south of Pooley Bridge on the lake's eastern shore is Eusemere, where anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson ( 1760 – 1846 ) lived ; the house gives one of the best views of the lower reach of Ullswater.

Woodworth held anti-slavery views, and the short-lived fusion Independent Democratic party he headed in Chicago merged with the Whigs to form the Illinois GOP.

His strict anti-slavery views stemmed from the perspective that the economic future of Chicago as a great metropolitan center was best advanced where all residents were free and able to seek a role in the commerce of the city ; this popular metropolitan perspective on slavery contrasted with the agrarian perspective popular in the Confederate states where slavery was considered a necessary aspect of the farming economy.

Besides sincere anti-slavery views, he saw African colonization as a way of Christian mission.

and did not shy from anti-slavery proclamations ; however, he also discounted the views of the more radical abolitionists.

One of Willis's tales, " The Night Funeral of a Slave ", featured an abolitionist who visits the South and regrets his anti-slavery views ; Frederick Douglass later used the work to criticize Northerners who were pro-slavery.

The Germans in particular were unpopular with many native-born Missourians with Southern backgrounds, who deeply resented their anti-slavery views.

Early becoming imbued with strong anti-slavery views, though by inheritance he was himself a slave holder, he began political life as a Whig.

He had strong anti-slavery views and did writing and speaking for the German-speaking community in connection with the Presidential campaigns of John Frémont and Abraham Lincoln.

He knew that his faith would not allow him to keep his views to himself, so he decided to move his family to the town of Ripley across the Ohio River in the free state of Ohio, where he had heard from family members that a number of anti-slavery Virginians had settled.

The congregation had been involved in anti-slavery activities as far back as 1807 when they and twelve other churches formed the Kentucky Abolition Society, and Rankin's deepening anti-slavery views were nurtured there by his listeners.

When the letters were published in book form in 1826 as Letters on Slavery, they provided one of the first clearly articulated anti-slavery views printed west of the Appalachians.

Because of his anti-slavery views, he was not chosen as a delegate to the convention.

Neither Garrard nor his son William were chosen as delegates, mostly due to their anti-slavery views.

He preached in neighboring counties, often running into violent opposition to his anti-slavery views.

In the 19th century, they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery Republicans ( GOP ) and the more liberal Northern Democrats.

The Sutherlands ’ liberal politics and love of the arts attracted many distinguished guests, including factory reformer the Earl of Shaftesbury, anti-slavery authoress Harriet Beecher Stowe and Italian revolutionary leader Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Active in liberal Unitarian circles, Reid was an anti-slavery activist, attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 and taking a close interest in the American Civil War.

Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

They were joined in their political activities by networks of related Quaker families such as the Earles and the Chases, whose organizing efforts were crucial to the anti-slavery cause in central Massachusetts and throughout New England.

In this essay, de Cleyre points to historical examples such as the Boston Tea Party and the American anti-slavery movement, noting that " direct action has always been used, and has the historical sanction of the very people now reprobating it.

The Mexican people opposed such boundaries, as did anti-slavery U. S. Senators, who saw the purchase as acquisition of more slave territory.

Thomas Holcroft's daughter, Fanny Holcroft ( 1780 – 1844 ), wrote the noted Romantic anti-slavery poem, " The Negro " ( 1797 ), as well as novels such as Fortitude and Frailty ( 1817 ) and The Wife and the Lover ( 1813 – 14 ).

Between 1820 and 1830, according to a statement made by Lundy himself, he traveled “ more than 5000 miles on foot and 20, 000 in other ways, visited 19 states of the Union, and held more than 200 public meetings .” He was bitterly denounced by slaveholders and also by such non-slaveholders as disapproved of all anti-slavery agitation, and in January 1827 he was assaulted and seriously injured by a slave-trader, Austin Woolfolk, whom he had severely criticized in his paper.

The Society also sponsored mass mobilizations such as yearly anti-slavery conventions and celebrations of July 4 or the Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, August 1.

The anti-slavery position of Germans in the South brought about violent clashes in slave states, such as Texas during the American Civil War.

From his current economic perspective, Yancey began to identify the anti-slavery movement negatively with issues such as the establishment of a national bank, internal improvements, and expanding federal power.

At Abney Park Cemetery there are also some of the early settlers in Britain from the four corners of the world, such as the African, Thomas Caulker, the son of the King of Bompey ( now Sierra Leone ), who signed an anti-slavery agreement that became part of an Act of Parliament in the 1850s ; and Leota, a native of the Samoa Islands whose life in London was due to the work of the London Missionary Society who sought to build schools and bring scripture to the inhabitants of the South Seas.

Remond proved to be such a good speaker, and such a good fundraiser, that she was invited to take the anti-slavery message to Great Britain, something her brother had done ten years before.

Resolved that the anti-slavery sentiment is becoming ripe for resolute action.

We should recall the number of movements for the service of mankind which arose from the kindred Evangelicalism of the British Isles and the Pietism of the Continent of Europe -- among them prison reform, anti-slavery measures, legislation for the alleviation of conditions of labour, the Inner Mission, and the Red Cross.

After 1815 anti-slavery sentiment mounted, chiefly among Protestants and those of Protestant background of the older stock.

The anti-slavery movement took many forms.

Benjamin Lundy ( 1789-1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies.

A marked impulse came to the anti-slavery movement through the Finney revivals.

Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign.

A strong temperance advocate, through the influence of a favorite teacher, Charles Stewart, another Finney convert, he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause.

A group of young men influenced by him enrolled in Lane Theological Seminary and had to leave because of their open anti-slavery position.

The anti-slavery movement and other contemporary reforms and philanthropies were given leadership and financial undergirding by Arthur Tappan ( 1786-1865 ) and his younger brother, Lewis Tappan ( 1788-1873 ).

Foner ( 2010 ) contrasts the abolitionists and anti-slavery Radical Republicans of the Northeast who saw slavery as a sin, with the conservative Republicans who thought it was bad because it hurt white people and blocked progress.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

James Basker also acknowledged this force when he explained why he chose " Amazing Grace " to represent a collection of anti-slavery poetry: " there is a transformative power that is applicable ...: the transformation of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature.

Furthermore, anti-slavery activists throughout the North came to view Kansas as a battleground and formed societies to encourage free-soil settlers to go to Kansas and ensure that both Kansas and Nebraska would become free states.

After he told his story, he was encouraged to become an anti-slavery lecturer.

Douglass came to agree with Smith and Lysander Spooner that the United States Constitution was an anti-slavery document.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Furthermore, owing to entrenched opposition from Southern slave states, Haiti did not receive U. S. diplomatic recognition until 1862 ( after those states had seceded from the Union ) – largely through the efforts of anti-slavery senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.