Abolitionist Movement and William Lloyd Garrison

African Americans were always treated like animals by the whites. It was as though they didn’t even consider them people. By the 1800s, Blacks were getting sick and tired of how they were treated and decided it was time to make a change. So in the early years of the 19th century, Blacks created an organized antislavery movement. Unfortunately, this movement didn’t exactly last long and it wasn’t very effective either. But after 1830, a new leading figure emerged and his name was William Lloyd Garrison. He began an abolitionist movement that really changed the nation as a whole.

The movement that occurred before the 1830s had no real effect on the nation as a whole. The concept was centered on colonization. They were trying to get the freed African Americans to move to Africa or the Caribbean’s. They created the American Colonization Society, which challenged slavery without challenging the property of the slave owners. This movement wasn’t successful because, unlike the one that occurs later on, instead of trying to keep all of the African Americans together, they tried to separate them which didn’t help the cause of stopping slavery. It just helped it out. This was the difference between the early opposition to slavery and the later movement.

In 1831, Garrison launched his weekly newspaper, the Liberator. This newspaper was all about how people viewed slavery and how they viewed it in all the wrong ways. He argued that people shouldn’t view slavery as an evil influence on white society, but on how it makes African Americans look bad. He also spoke of the advocates of colonization, which were those who started an antislavery movement in the early 19th century, and how they weren’t really against slavery. They were really trying t...

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...it made sure to see that state officials didn’t help in the catching and returning of runaway slaves. Although the movement was good for slaves, this movement really divided the nation. Some people believed in taking matters peacefully and calmly, while others decided that violence and riots were the way to go. There was also an even bigger division between freed African American slaves and white people.

As you can see, the abolitionist movement in the 1830s was far more successful than the movement in the early 1800s. The movement in the 1830s changed the nation as a whole by dividing the country between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists. It also caused abolitionism of slavery to become a big thing. But the crusade Garrison cause, and the men and women who stayed alive was a constant reminder of how slavery was dividing America.

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