USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Someone who is strongly against slavery:
A
abolitionist
B
overseer
C
yeomen
D
priest
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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