Northern Abolitionist Movement

Introduction

Abolitionist Movement, reform movement throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Often called the antislavery movement, it searched to end the enslavement of Africans and persons of African fall in Europe, the Americas, and Africa itself. It furthermore aimed to end the Atlantic slave trade conveyed out in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa, Europe, and the Americas (Cain, pp: 26).

The chronicled roots of abolitionism lay in black resistance to slavery. Such resistance started throughout the 15th century as Africans enslaved by Europeans often sought to kill their captors or themselves. Despite these early successes, by the mid-1780s the revolutionary ...