6 sentences with “abolitionists”

White Southerners reacted strongly to abolitionists' attacks on slavery. In making their defence of slavery, they criticised wage labour in the North.

As the nation expanded in the 1830s and 1840s, the writings of abolitionists - a small but vocal group of Northerners committed to ending slavery - reached a wider national audience.

Increasingly, the South saw itself as under attack by radical Northern abolitionists, and many Northerners began to speak ominously of a Southern eagerness to dominate American politics in order to protect human property from slaveholders.

Anti-slavery advocates differed from abolitionists. While abolitionists called for the end of slavery everywhere, antislavery advocates, for a variety of reasons, did not question the presence of slavery in states where it already existed.

Defenders of the institution of slavery also lashed out directly at abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, for daring to question their way of life. In fact, Virginians cited Garrison as the instigator of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831.

The first new party, the small and politically weak Liberty Party, founded in 1840, was a single-issue party, like many that followed. Its members were abolitionists who fervently believed that slavery was evil and had to be ended, and that the best way to achieve this was by political means.