Slavery as a Cause

   When slavery was created, mostly everyone agreed with it. However, as time went on more people became disgusted by it. This is understandable- the whipping and abuse of actual humans, treated people worse than animals, working people past their limit, selling human beings, and not giving slaves the right to be educated or have any other self right would cause people to want to change this tragedy.  In the 1800s, people couldn’t take it any longer and were ready to fight. At this point, there were a lot of people fighting for different things. Some people were fighting to keep slavery and the slave trade. Other people were fighting to stop the slave trade, and then some people were fighting to keep slavery all together. People who disagreed with slavery were called abolitionists. They wanted freedom for everyone (they believed in equal rights), they were very religious, and very determined. Basically, the confrontation between the two opinions of people was like working with a partner on a project, and they want to do the exact opposite of you-but on a much larger scale. Slavery caused the whole country to be divided… literally.

   In December of 1833, William Lloyd Garrison (left) and Arthur and Lewis Tappan (right), started the American Anti-Slavery Society. This society (like it’s name) was against slavery. These three men are some of the most famous abolitionists in U.S history.

                                              

http://www.biography.com/people/william-lloyd-garrison-9307251

Google search: Arthur and Lewis Tappan

http://www.slideshare.net/MissWilber/top-ten-abolitionists