How and why did abolitionism begin in America ?
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it began when loads of people didnt do their homework over easter and tricked people on yahoo answers into writing their essays for them. skitty.
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It depended in what region of the US they were enslaved in (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States for more information).\n\nI hope this helps you!!!
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slavery still exists. its just in a different form. there are slaves here in america and in other parts of the world. i am surprised u never heard of it. there are woman who come into this country with a promised job as a "maid" and when they get over here their employer takes their passports and keeps their wages. which is slavery.
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Hi Lana, there should be something on the subject within these links.\n\nSocial Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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BECAUSE the dominant history of this country (I'm assuming you mean the U.S. when you say "America") is told from the perspective of white colonialists!  Institutionalized schooling in this country was established to enforce Protestant, Anglo-European values and I believe that, in some ways, that is still its purpose (look at No Child Left Behind!)
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Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Douglas#Abolitionist_Activities
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Contrary to the popular belief shown in these answers it did not start in the American Congress.  It started in the assembly of France.  Those that sat on the Speakers right were loyal to the Republic and those that sat to the left were seeking to change the government.\n\nThere was no original conection to religion at the start, but there has been an intertwining of personal beleifs since then.
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I've read that it was the South's continued practice of slavery that turned off the English.  The British had outlawed slavery and didn't much care to be associated with it anymore.  Had the Confederacy abandoned that institution, I think you might have seen a slightly different outcome, but then again, slavery was one of the reasons (not THE reason, but ONE of many reasons) for the conflict in the first place, so...
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John Brown. (1800-1859) \nJohn Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio. He felt passionately and violently that he must personally fight to end slavery. In 1856, in retaliation for the sack of Lawrence, he led the murder of five proslavery men on the banks of the Pottawatomie River. He stated that he was an instrument in the hand of God. \n\nBrown did not end there. On Oct. 16, 1859, Brown and 21 followers captured the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown planned the takeover as the first step in his liberation of the slaves, but it was taken the next morning by Robert E. Lee. \n\nBrown was hanged on Dec. 2, 1859. He became a martyr for many because of the dignity and sincerity that he displayed during his popular trial. \n\nStephen Vincent Benét wrote "John Brown's Body," an epic about the Civil War. He framed his poem around the life and death of John Brown.\n\nForgive me for writing James Brown. I just got finished talking about him with a friend. John Brown is correct of course.
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It was one of the contributory causes. The North wanted to weaken the institution while the South wanted to preserve it. The South believed that President Lincoln intended to end it contributing to secession. \n\nLincoln initially declared his purpose to be the preservation of the Union, not emancipation. He had no wish to alienate the thousands of slaveholders in the Union border states, some of whom stayed loyal. The long war radicalised the Governments policy. With the Emancipation Proclamation, announced in September 1862 and put into effect four months later, Lincoln adopted the abolition of the Slave Power as a second mission—that is slaves owned by rebels had to be taken away from them and freed.
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It started shortly after the civil war in one of the southern states that was opposed to blacks getting their freedoms. It was started by a bunch of Bigots who thought they were doing good by getting rid of freemen.
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois
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The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events.\n\nAt the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery, which had been introduced into North America in early colonial times. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States, not only at the behest of the Southern ones, but also with the approval of many of the Northern delegates who saw that there was still much money to be made in the slave trade by the Yankee shipping industry. Eventually its existence came to color every aspect of American life.\n\nAt the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings, eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by which five slaves counted as three free men toward that representation. By the end of the convention the institution of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the Constitution.\n\nIt seemed to Thomas Jefferson and many others that slavery was on its way out, doomed to die a natural death. It was becoming increasingly expensive to keep slaves in the agrarian society of the south. Northern and Southern members of Congress voted together to abolish the importation of slaves from overseas in 1808, but the domestic slave trade continued to flourish. The invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South. The slave became an ever more important element of the southern economy, and so the debate about slavery, for the southerner, gradually evolved into an economically based question of money and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect.\n\nBut even as the need to protect it grew, the ability, or at least the perceived ability of the South to do so was waning. Southern leaders grew progressively more sensitive to this condition. In 1800 half of the population of the United States had lived in the South. But by 1850 only a third lived there and the disparity continued to widen. While northern industrial opportunity attracted scores of immigrants from Europe in search of freedom the South's population stagnated. Even as slave states were added to the Union to balance the number of free ones, the South found that its representatives in the House had been overwhelmed by the North’s explosive growth. More and more emphasis was now placed on maintaining parity in the Senate. Failing this, the paranoid theory went, the South would find itself at the mercy of a government in which it no longer had an effective voice. Never mind that slavery was protected under the constitution, and that it would have been impossible to make amendments to abolish it. Jefferson Davis, at the time a Senator from Mississippi, summed up the sectionalist argument himself. Speaking, in effect, to the people of the North concerning slavery, “It is not humanity that influences you… it is that you may have a majority in the Congress of the United States and convert the Government into an engine of Northern aggrandizement… you want by an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the United States at the expense of the people of the South.” There, in plain English, is the shrill, accusat
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John Brown was an abolitionist (abolish slavery) who with his followers conducted the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. He was tried and hanged. This was in 1859, two years prior to the onset of the Civil War. Historians see this as one of the key factors that led to the Civil War.
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American was founded on guns and religion.  Many of the early settlers came here to escape religious persecution.  They separated from England with guns, and "tamed the West" with guns (i.e. kicked out the people already living here.)  The idea of a great untamed wilderness, and the so-called "Western Expansion" still resonates in the American psyche.  Because of the importance of guns and religion, protections for these areas were written into America's founding documents.
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I.Protestant Revivalists\n\na. many problems were associated with industrialization and urbanization:\naa. alcoholism, illiteracy, overcrowded housing, poor health care, abuse of women, declining moral values\nb. many people sought to improve problems\nba. many reform movements began in the early 1800s\nbaa. most reform movements were rooted in religious faith and true to democratic principles of the 2nd Great Awakening\nc. reformers rejected the Puritan belief that God predetermined peoples’ lives and placed them in rigid social ranks\nca. taught the possibility of salvation for all\ncb. called for a crusade against personal immorality\ncc. worked for the reform of society\nd. Charles Grandison Finney\nda. central figure in revivalist movement\ndb. powerful sermons drew enormous crowds\ndc. emphasized individuals’ power to reform themselves\n\nWhen he opened his mouth he was aiming a gun. When he spoke bombardment began. The effects of his speaking were almost unparalleled in modern history. Over half a million people were converted through his ministry ... in an age when there were no amplifiers or mass communications, he spearheaded a revival which literally altered the course of history.\n\ne. Lyman Beecher\nea. taught “good people would make a good country”\neb. father of Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe\n\n II.The Temperance Movement\n\na. early 1800s, Amer. consumed more alcohol than at any other time in our history\nb. opposed alcohol because it tended to make people lose control\nc. valued self-control and self- discipline\nd. believed people should abstain from all alcohol\ne. asked people to sign abstinence pledges promising not to use alcohol\nf. organized the American Temperance Society \ng. wanted states to restrict the sale and consumption of alcohol\nh. alcohol consumption dropped sharply as movement gained strength\n\nIII.Public Education\n\na. Horace Mann led reform\nb. Mann became head of Board of Education in Massachusetts\nba. believed in the right to an education of every human being\nbb. believed a democracy couldn’t survive without an educated society\nc. wanted tax supported public schools\nca. some people didn’t support using tax money for schools\ncb. those with no children didn’t want to pay taxes\ncc. some people didn’t want the government educating their children\nd. Mann established grade levels\ne. established curriculum and teacher training\nf. Mann known as “father of American public schools”\ng. spoke out against slavery\nh. public school children of Mann’s day were taught how to behave, stand in line, wait their turn, and respect authority\ni. textbooks called McGuffey’s Readers not only helped teach reading, but also taught Protestant values like obedience, honesty, and temperance\nj. schools were more popular in the north \nja. few public schools in the South\njb. the South was too spread out\nk. most schools were segregated\nl. opportunities for women were limited\n\n IV.Reforming Prisons\n\na. early 1800s, many states built prisons for the first time\nb. conditions in prisons were typically bad\nc. Dorothea Dix fought for prison reform\nd. led efforts to build hospitals for the mentally ill\n\nThe Anti-Slavery Movement\n\n  I.Growth of the Movement\n\na. first anti-slavery group was the Mennonites\nb. northern states began outlawing slavery\nba. by 1804, northern states had either banned slavery or passed laws to end it gradually\nbb. importation of slaves was banned in 1808\nbc. by 1850, 3.7 mil blacks lived in the US, 12 % were free\nbd. in 1820, the slave pop. in the South was 1.5 mil\nbe. by 1850, 3.2 mil\nc. 1820s, a free black man, David Walker, published a pamphlet Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World\nca. placed it in clothing of sailors going to the South\nd. southern states banned anti-slavery movement and publications\nda. made it illegal to teach slaves to read\ne.1821, Benjamin Lundy founded an anti-slavery newspaper in Ohio called T