Abolition anti-slavery ideology difference



Abolition anti-slavery ideology difference

The antislavery crusade followed a course extending over a comparable period, with early abolitionist sentiment finding organizational expression by the time of independence. In 1817 a major effort to facilitate the return of free blacks and manumitted slaves to Africa was formalized in the American Colonization Society, but few departed and this solution to slavery was discredited by the prevalence of anti-black motives underlying the involvement of many advocates. By the 1830s more direct attacks on bondage were current and the New England and American Anti-Slavery Societies founded in that decade amalgamated diverse political ...