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A 3 page overview of the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century. This paper emphasizes the multifaceted nature of the movement. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in the United States was a complex assortment of people and institutions devoted to ending one of the most atrocious human rights atrocities of all time. Known as the
abolitionist movement, this movement recognized that the horrible institution of slavery was not going to be overturned through a blind adherence to societal norms. The norm, after all, was
the institution of slavery. To overcome that norm, the abolitionist movement had to convince a significant percentage of Americans that slavery was the most evil institution of American history.
Abolitionist did so both through legal and illegal means. Abolitionists were successful in ending slavery only after they had invested years of
diligent work. They staged peaceful protests and excited people to action through eloquently presented addresses from ex-slaves like Frederick Douglass who told of his personal experiences in bondage.
The abolitionists fought against slavery through more innovative means as well. They quilted so-called freedom quilts and they promoted the use of secret signs that would allow slaves to
identify sympathizers. Many important symbols of the abolitionist movement, in fact, were hidden in plain site in the lives of those that still labored in the homes and fields
of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo. That cargo, of course, was the slaves themselves. They were transported from captivity in the South to
freedom in the North over carefully designed and implemented underground railways. The predominant sentiment during times of slavery in the United States was
that a slave was a being which was inferior to whites. The contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being
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