Sentences with phrase «northern abolitionists»

This segment of the series speaks about the efforts by Northern Abolitionists to eliminate slavery prior to

Southern Baptists, on the other hand, defended the institution of slavery and attacked the Northern abolitionists.

The moderates and Southerners combined before the triennial convention of 1841 to keep the slavery question off the floor and to replace a Northern abolitionist board member with a Southern proslavery man.

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In the years leading up to the schism, southern Baptists desired to make slavery a non-issue, while abolitionist forces in the North (and among northern Baptists) desired the convention to take a moral stand against it.

New York, a Northern stronghold of Unionists and abolitionists, has few Confederate memorials.

During the antebellum years, these communication technologies facilitated the anti-slavery campaign that started in earnest in the early 1830s, allowing abolitionist broadsides, brochures, books and newspapers to be distributed cheaply and widely throughout the North and helping Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist speakers spread their message to northern towns large and small.

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through, as well as how slaves were treated in the northern states that had already outlawed slavery (Diane S).

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through as well as how blacks were treated in the Northern states that had already outlawed slavery.