Arguments Against Northern Abolitionists

Both Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders both believed they were defending the Constitution prior to the Civil War. Though both believed that they were trying to defend their Constitutional rights, their opposition was what led to war breaking out. Northern abolitionists believed that to best act on the rights set by the Constitution they needed to free slaves. They argued that African-Americans were people, and should have the rights of freedom as American Citizens. They thought that all slaves should be set free from their masters with no compensation to the slaveowners. Some abolitionists however, didn’t want the free slaves to live with white Americans, So a smaller movement was also started that tried to send freed slaves