Abolitionist Paper

Abolitionist Paper-History
December 17th, 2002

Throughout the 1830-1860s slaves were a huge debate between the North and South. There were two sides to the way people viewed slavery. One side viewed slavery as a positive necessity, these people came from the South and used slavery on their large plantations. The other side viewed slavery as wrong; these people were typically from the North and didn’t use slavery because it was not needed up North to run large factories. The side that viewed slavery as wrong were called abolitionists. Abolitionists worked to abolish slavery in all states and in their eyes slavery was wrong and inhumane. There have been many famous abolitionists throughout history. Each abolitionist has their own story and own way of telling of the abusive, cruel system of slavery.
Fredrick Douglass may be known as one of the greatest abolitionists in history and also America’s foremost great black speaker. Douglass was one of the first l...