The Abolitionist Movement During the thirty years that preceded the Civil War, abolitionism was a major factor in electoral politics. Abolitionism refers to antislavery activism between the early 1830s, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator, and the Civil War. By the year 1834, there existed a weak framework of abolitionists, many who were determined free blacks from the north who had a common goal, the emancipation of slavery. These abolitionists took great courage and …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…had shaken the world with their radical views on equality between black and white, and the argument that there should be no slavery. Though many abolitionists were guided by their own sectional interests, a new type of thought was occurring, that even blacks are considered “men” in the eyes of the almighty Lord. By 1836, the abolitionists, in their argument for immediate emancipation of slaves, and equal rights revolution, opened a new page in radical ideas.