How Did African Americans Contribute To The Abolitionist Movement

Between 1820 and 1850 the abolitionist movement was both a cause and an effect of the growing differences between the North and the South. Although slavery was tolerated, and very common in the South, Northern states did not tolerate it. They thought slavery was morally wrong, and it needed to be stopped, which led to southerners expressing their conflicting opinions throughout the North, and because of this, a divide between communities was created. The differences in the North and the South led to the abolitionist movement for many reasons. Some of which being that the communities had a difference in opinions when it came to morals, and a difference in the levels of education a citizen was able to get. Typically, Northerners believed that slavery was morally wrong, and was a sin, because of this, they were heavily against slavery. A Southern plantation owner’s daughter,
People became less and less tolerant of slavery throughout the country. But before this could happen, there were many opposing actions against abolitionists, and their views from Southerners. Now that the Northerners had a united front against slavery, their lives were put at risk. Free blacks, and white citizens both had the risk of southerners harming them verbally, and physically, for their opposing beliefs. On top of the violence, some Northern abolitionist newspapers and novels were banned in the south. William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper, The Liberator, was one of the many informative writing pieces published in the South. The South wanted to stop the spread of the abolitionist’s view, and so they did everything in their power to prevent what was truly happening to slaves in their holders homes. Soon enough, the violence that the South had been experiencing, started spreading to the North as well. Houses were lit on fire, people were violently harmed, and it was all because they wanted to stop