LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
Question
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Someone who is strongly against slavery:
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abolitionist
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overseer
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yeomen
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priest
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -White abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, born in 1805, had a particular fondness for poetry, which he believed to be “naturally and instinctively on the side of liberty.” He used verse as a vehicle for enhancing anti-slavery sentiment.
Detailed explanation-2: -An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abolitionism, meanwhile, was in itself a heterogeneous movement. At one end of its spectrum was William Lloyd Garrison, an “immediatist, ” the founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–70), who denounced not only slavery but also the Constitution of the United States for tolerating the evil.
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