Abolitionists

Slide 15: ABOLITIONISTS RESPOND Denounced by Abolitionists Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published Abolitionists refuse to enforce the law

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Now, if that estimate be not altogether inaccurate, what place in the scale of renown must be assigned to those pioneers in the successful movement against African slavery in this country who have commonly been known as "Abolitionists" -- a name first given in derision by their enemies?

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

Yeah, (shock, shock), I think they should even be taught that the Abolitionists were the Right Wing Evangelicals of their day and that it was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that religion and the religious played a very important role in ending Jim Crow and bringing about the Civil Rights Act. And, that it was the moral rightness of these movements that in the end caused them to succeed.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

Yeah, shock, shock, I think they should even be taught that the Abolitionists were the Right Wing Evangelicals of their day and that it was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that religion and the religious played a very important role in ending Jim Crow and bringing about the Civil Rights Act.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

In their brief moment of greeting, Samuel saw her not as the fighter in a great cause but what she was in herself, and he became alarmed at what he and other Abolitionists were asking her to do.

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

John Hunn and Thomas Garrett were too well known as Abolitionists to undertake this mission.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Arthur and Lewis Tappan, the distinguished merchants of New York, were noted for their intelligence and culture, but when the heads of the families came to be classified as Abolitionists the doors of all fashionable mansions were at once shut against them.

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

How far it had ever been proper to call the Abolitionists a party may be doubted; before the war they had been compressed into some solidity by encompassing hostility; but they would not have been Abolitionists at all had they not been men of exceptional independence both in temper and in intellect.

Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

One sign that public opinion condemned the Abolitionists was the license given to the rioters against them in New York City.

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

The attempt to suppress the Abolitionists was a failure.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889