The Emancipation of Slaves

abolished and Garrison’s mission completed. Calhoun may have had a point in the fact that slavery was beneficial to southern society but he failed to mention the treatment of the slaves and how they were forced to live in treacherous conditions. On April 3, 1830, a jury found Garrison guilty within fifteen minutes for this had taken place in the South where slavery was deemed a necessity and a way of life. Garrison often disagreed with Lundy, as Lundy was a gradualist who wanted gradual emancipation for slaves rather than being like Garrison, an extreme immediatist (Aptheker 3).

During Garrison’s vocation as an abolitionist he took credit for over 328 different abolitionist groups. Although an opposer of slavery, Lincoln never considered himself an abolitionist. Militant in the fight against slavery, the organizers were regarded in the South as fanatics; members of the society were denounced, and meetings were broken up. Garrison and other immediatists did not believe that one should have to wait for freedom or that it was right to make the slaves endure more suffering and hardships as they had already been put through enough (Stewart 173). Throughout all of Garrison’s life, he was always the one to call people on their ignorance and their lack of knowledge on slavery. The first one was The Compromise of 1850, also known as The Missouri Compromise (Garraty 209). In the book Stowe providing dramatic examples of the evils of slavery is showing how the institution of slavery corrupts otherwise kind slaveholders (Macy 132). Garrison helped write propagandist literature like The Genius of Universal Emancipation, The Liberator, and The National Philanthropist. Another leading individual in the anti-slavery movement was Wendell Phillips. That book was meant to be counter-propaganda against the literature abolitionists had spread (Potter 3).