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The Slave Of The North And South

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Abolitionist came from middle class families, particularly those of New England Stock. They viewed slavery as a national sin; quoted from the book, “an evil that mocked American ideals of liberty and Christian morality.” Reformers who were antislavery of the North and South created the American colonization society, the removal of freed blacks to Africa. Henry Clay, James Madison, and President James Monroe lead the organization. Their goals were to make America free and all white. Even though the American Colonization Society had supporters, it did not succeed. The African Americans did not stand by while this happened, they fought back and confronted the colonizers with their assumptions that “free black people were unfit to live as citizens in America.” Most of the African Americans who lived in American, were native born, which to them meant that they belonged in America. Free African Americans established some 50 abolitionist societies that presented refuge to fugitive slaves, and launched the first African American newspaper in 1827, Freedoms Journal by David Walker, a free black man who published this to Appeal the the Colored Citizen of the World. He insisted, “America is more our country than it is the whites, we have enriched it with our blood and tears.” Thus, created a comeback that exploded in the summer of 1831, Nat Turners Rebellion. From both sides, a small group of antislavery white people lost hope of colonization and boarded on a new method. Returning to

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