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An abolitionist was a person who wanted to do away with slavery. Abolitionists Demanded the immediate freeing of slaves. They believed that slavery was morally wrong. They also believed that slavery was cruel and inhuman and a violation of the principles of democracy. Out of the whole slavery and anti-slavery movement there seem to have emerged great people with very dramatic and heart felt writings of what had and was happening in their lives at this point. There were women and men of all races in the abolitionist movement going on in the 1800’s. The abolitionist writings portrayed the horrors, suffering, and despair that so many blacks experienced. The south used economic needs as well as religious backings to justify their practice. The north simply had no real idea, and did not really want to know, what the true reality of slavery was like. In reality, the north could probably be considered the worse of the two, ignoring a terrible thing like that to happen. These are some of these writings begging with Frederick Douglass, he once wrote this about religious slave owners, “For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.” One would think, that a religion based on the message ‘love thy neighbour’ would work actively against slavery, or rather, that the followers of such religion would. He also presented what he called “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” He presented this speech at a meeting sponsored by the Rochester ladies ‘ Anti-Slavery Society, at Rochester Hall, in Rochester , N.Y.
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