Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement

From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration

The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. The new antislavery crusade had a strong sectional character, and the activists criticized human bondage as contrary to the principles of republicanism and liberty, which was accepted as a “necessary evil.” Beginning in the 1830’s, a number of outspoken abolitionists condemned slavery as a sin and saw it as their moral duty to end this violation of God’s law.

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Brown was wounded and quickly captured, and moved to Charlestown, Virginia, where he was tried and convicted of treason, Before hearing his sentence, Brown was allowed make an address to the court.

Despite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory. There, he became the leader of antislavery guerillas and fought a proslavery attack against the antislavery town of Lawrence. The following year, in retribution for another attack, Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers. Brown and his sons would continue to fight in the territory and in Missouri for the rest of the year.

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Brown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery. He sought money to fund an "army" he would lead. On October 16, 1859, he set his plan to action when he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the fede

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