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By the early 1830's, Theodore D. Weld, William Loyd Garrison, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and Elizur Wright Jr., all spiritually nourished by revivalism (bringing back the Christain beliefs), had taken up the cause of "immediate emancipation."======

Abolitionist feelings were strong through the Revolution and the Upper South around the 1820's

Free-Soialism - group who opposed slave laws to be extended to any new territories in the United States

" Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups condemned it as un-Christian. Though antislavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, they had little immediate effect on the centers of slavery themselves — the West Indies, South America, and the southern United States. The importation of African slaves was banned in the British colonies in 1807, and in the United States in 1808. In the British West Indies, slavery was abolished in 1833 and in the French possessions 15 years later."

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/image.php?rec=401&img=1058 [ Theodore D. Weld ] [] [ William Lloyd Garrison (picture included) ] [] [ The Liberator - Newspaper promoting Anti-Slavery laws by William Garrison ] [] [ Abolitionist Newspapers ]