Abolition

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Abolition Jack Clark Throughout the American age of slavery there was always a small group of people willing to stand out against the common belief in slavery. These people believed that all men are created equal and that slavery should be outlawed forever. These people were abolitionists. Abolitionists were around since the time the country was founded but they were never more than a handful. The Abolitionists fought hard in the antebellum period to keep the Senate dominated by Slave free states. Many were happy to go to war for their cause and were happy with the fact it was happening. The abolitionists got their first taste of victory with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 but many wanted a complete outlaw of slavery. One important leader of the abolitionists was Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave. Douglass was a very smart man and had escaped slavery a long time ago. Once escaped he knew his purpose in life, to free the others who were not as fortunate as him. It is a fact that without Frederick Douglass the abolitionists would not have had the same momentum they possessed to outlaw slavery and perhaps would not have been so quickly successful. At the end of the Civil War the abolitionists were thrilled with their President, the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln. But, no good things last and shortly after the end of the war Lincoln was assassinated. This greatly upset the abolitionists but they still managed to reach their goal and slavery was outlawed, once and for all, in the United States of America. It is easy to say that without the abolitionists the fight for slavery would have run a completely different course. Leaders like Frederick Douglas fought hard for what they believed in and in the end were able to succeed. I think every American today owes the abolitionists for reshaping the nation the way our founding fathers imagined it.

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