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Timeline of major events related to abolitionism, which sought to end the transatlantic slave trade and to free enslaved persons in western Europe and the Americas. The movement arose in the late 18th century and was spearheaded by such figures as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Oct 27, 2009 · The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
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Timeline of the Abolitionist Movement. 1828: New York State abolishes slavery. 1829: David Walker’s Appeal. 1831: William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator. Nat Turner Slave Rebellion. 1833: American Anti-slavery Society formed. 1837: Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered.
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In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
About. Abolitionists, 1780-1865. Lauren Anderson, Harvard College Class of 2021, Social Studies. On March 16, 1827, the Black abolitionists Reverend Samuel E. Cornish and John Brown Russwurm set out on a task: “to plead our own cause.”
