Who were the abolitionists
... The preaching of Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher inspired such abolitionists as Theodore Weld, and Arthur and Lewis Tappan. ... If they did not have wealth of their own, many abolitionists had the ability to obtain funding, such as John Brown. ... Secondly, their immediate emancipation influenced Garrison and other abolitionists to move away from the gradual American Colonization Society and form the American Anti-Slavery Society. ... Some of the founding abolitionists were first influenced by the Great Revival itself, after hearing the sermons of Finney and Beecher. ... Other religious abolitionists included the Grimke sisters and Sojourner Truth. ... By 1830, many abolitionists began to frown upon the gradualist’s approaches to emancipation. ... These new, radical abolitionists believed in immediatism. ... These agents worked to convert all abolitionists to immediatism and gain new members for the cause. ... Other well educated abolitionists included Theodore Weld, who attended Hamilton College, and the Tappan brothers, founders of Oberlin College. ... Many of the abolitionists did not have fortunes, and relied on funding from other societies. ... The Grimke sisters were the two abolitionists most involved with another reform, women’s rights. ... With the formation of the new abolitionists, working for immediate emancipation, Southern slave owners felt threatened.