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Throughout the late 1700’s and early 1800’s several heated debates were taking place in the country about the issue of slavery. Blacks wanted freedom, southern planters wanted free workers. Northerners began to realize the cruelty of slavery and began to side with the slaves. Abolitionists had radicalized the antislavery movement by 1836. Slavery had been taking place since America was discovered, but people did not start noticing the horror that was actually taking place until the later 1700’s. The Second Great Awakening also showed the sin of slavery and helped whites become abolitionists. Theodore Dwight Weld became sympathetic to slavery after the Great Awakening opened his eyes, so he gave speeches to rural audiences of untutored farmers. Abolitionists, both blacks and whites, began to sprout across the northern colonies. William Lloyd Garrison started the newspaper The Liberator to spread his beliefs about slavery. Some say that Garrison triggered the thirty-year was or words, and in some ways fired one of the opening barrages of the Civil War. In one of Garrison’s newspaper issues he points out that in the American Declaration of Independence all men are supposed to be created equal and have certain inalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Approximate Word count = 719
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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