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Abolitionists pressured Lincoln to end the slavery after the start of the Civil War in 1861. These pressures also affected Lincoln to declare the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
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The group of people during the Civil War that were opposed to slavery were referred to as abolitionists. One of the most famous abolitionists was Benjamin Franklin, who was a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, one of the first formal organizations for abolition in the United States.
Abolitionists wanted enslaved African Americans to be freed from slavery, and to then enjoy the same civil rights as any other American.
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Abolitionists
Abolitionists, were people who wanted to end slavery in western Europe and the Americas. Its origins were in the UK and spread to the USA and Canada. The Northern states of the US were in favour of abolishing slavery the Southern states were not. This led to the American Civil War.
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Although there were thousands of documented cases to the contrary (mainly in the northern states and among a few hundred Southern Abolitionists), they were thought as property.
R. J. M. Blackett has written: 'Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent' 'Beating against the barriers' -- subject(s): Abolitionists, Addresses, essays, lectures, African American abolitionists, African Americans, Biography
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Freed African Americans would take some of their jobs, the workers were socially higher than slaves, and disruption of the Union.
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Other slaves or abolitionists. ;)
John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass were all pre-Civil War abolitionists