The Abolition Of Slavery In The 1800's

The topic of the abolition of slavery in the 1800's was a big controversial issue, there were people supporting slavery and people against it. During the abolition movement there was the formation of several abolition groups with different manners of tackling the task of fighting for the freedom of slaves. There were two distinct categories the groups tactics for accomplishing this task fell under, moral persuasion, and violence. Two of the abolition groups fell under the moral persuasion category, the very first abolition group to be formed was The American Colonization Society in 1817 led by William Lloyd Garrison, the groups tactic was to have slave owners voluntary free their slaves and receive money from the society. From there they prepared
Activist like David Walker used moral persuasion in the "Appeal To the colored citizens of the world", and William Lloyd Garrison during "The Declaration of the American Anti-Slavery Society". Even though Walker is considered an advocate in the use of violence to free the slaves, in the beginning of his appeal he explains why slavery bad, in the hope that people for slavery would read this and change their minds. Walker uses religion to persuade his readers as Walker states "that we Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that over lived since the world began, down to the present day, and, that, the white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,)". By using religion, he compares the white Christian slave holders to the ways that they treat slaves. By using Christianity to compare slavery, Walker connects the bible and his interpretation of the bible to say that in the way he interprets the bible slavery is a sin. He further goes on saying that the white Christians slave holders are faking Christianity because they support slavery. Walker also uses Christianity as a threat to the slave holders "for although the destruction of the oppressors God may not effect by the oppressed, yet the Lord our God will bring other destructions upon
They protested the Stamp Act by not paying taxes, and also protested the tax on tea by dumping it all into the harbor. But it wasn't until the Revolutionary war that colonist used violence against the British government to get their freedom. After the colonist tried to use nonviolent methods to get their freedom and noticed it was not going to be effective, they resulted to using violence making it justifiable. Similarly, these were the same steps the anti-slavery movement member when through. It began with William Lloyd Garrison and David Walker who tried to use their words to get sympathy from people who were for slavery and change their minds. This method ended up not being effective as Fredrick Douglass noticed and the only way slaves were going to get their freedom was going to be through violence, these events lead to the civil war. The war was between the Union in the north fighting for the freedom of slaves and the Confederacy who was protecting their rights to own slaves. In the end the violence was effective, and the slaves were