slavery

William Lloyd Garrison once said, “I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”# It was people like Garrison who made the abolition what is was. They knew slavery was wrong, and would not tolerate it.
Slavery was an ghastly institution made in the purpose of the South would flourish. When one thinks of the South in the time of the Civil War, they think of cotton and plantations. In order to keep the cotton and crop production high, they used slaves that were kidnapped from their native countries and brought the US for labor. Slaves were treated inhumanely, barbarically, and were forced to insufferable hours on the plantations. The slaves were treated as animals--they were sold just as a cow or a horse would be. If they didn’t obey their owner completely they would be severely beaten. Many times slaves would be sold apart from their family, never ...