LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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Question
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William Lloyd Garrison thought the best way to convince Southerners to abolish slavery was to
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force the Southern states to secede
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convince them that slavery was sinful
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show them that they would make more profits without slaves
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have them replace slaves with Irish immigrants
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Speaking in Boston’s Park Street Church, Garrison strongly denounced the national sin of slavery. He also called for gradual emancipation of the enslaved and supported the American Colonization Society’s program of shipping free Blacks to their “homeland” of Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -For more than three decades, from the first issue of his weekly paper in 1831, until after the end of the Civil War in 1865 when the last issue was published, Garrison spoke out eloquently and passionately against slavery and for the rights of America’s black inhabitants.
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