USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The abolitionists saw slavery as an abomination and an affliction on the United States, making it their goal to eradicate slave ownership. They sent petitions to Congress, ran for political office and inundated people of the South with anti-slavery literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abolitionists believed that slavery was a national sin, and that it was the moral obligation of every American to help eradicate it from the American landscape by gradually freeing the slaves and returning them to Africa..

Detailed explanation-3: -The abolitionist movement espoused the view that slavery was morally wrong, and that the United States should ban slavery and emancipate all enslaved people.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response to abolitionists’ calls across the colonies to end slavery, Vermont became the first colony to ban it outright.