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Many abolitionists thought that slavery would end peacefully, when society realized
that slaves were people of moral height.
As is the case of WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (PHOTO AND WILLIAM LLORD
GARRISON (PHOTO)
Those who believed in emancipation through moral conviction. These moral
persuasions were carried out through speeches. And articles, in the newspaper as
the LIBERATOR, EDITED BY GARRISON. (PHOTO OF THE NEWSPAPER)
For them, writers and journalists wrote stories about the life of slaves (SEEKING
IMAGE AND REFLECTING THE LIFE OF THE SLAVES), with the intention of
convincing society that the enslaved men were women equal to whites in their
human quality.
On the other hand, there was political action: Towards the end of the 1830s, the idea
of political action gained ground. In 1839 the Liberty party was established, which,
although it was not popular, had the mission to direct the abolitionist intentions in a
political action. (PHOTO OF THESE POLITICS) There is also the physical action:
for these, emancipation was possible only through physical action, as the slave
HARRIEL TUBMAN (PHOTO) who escaped to freedom through the so-called
underground railway and helped escape through this route to hundreds of slaves,
including his own family. Finally, the claims went so far as to divide the country during
the secession war (IMAGE OF THIS WAR), whose cause, although multiple, was
due in part to the refusal of southern confederate states to renounce the slave trend.
Abolition was achieved in 1863, during the war when President Abraham Lincoln
(FOTO) signed the proclamation of emancipation, (IMAGE) declaring the liberation
of the South. But it did not affect the slaves Vivian in states of union. Finally, in 1865
was obtained in the amendment 13 to the constitution, that prohibited the institution
of the slavery in all the country.