Dbq Abolitionists

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Abolitionism was a movement to end slavery and the early abolitionists had played a very important role in the movement towards the civil war. The abolitionists aimed the immediate emancipation of all the slaves and putting an end to racial discrimination. The post 1830 abolitionists relied on militant tactics as well as confrontational strategies to deal with slavery. The religious fervour of the Great Awakening also added fuel to the radical abolitionist efforts. Starting the 1830s the abolitionist ideas started finding more prominence in the Northern Churches as well as politics, thus leading to the Civil war. The abolitionists argued that slavery was against the God as well as the American creed. The abolitionists not just spread the word