How Did The First African American Abolitionists

It was 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia to the North American Colony. African Americans aided with the economic growth foundations of the new nation. Slavery played an important role in the South’s economy because it technology was improved, so there was a demand for slave labor. Most slaves worked on plantations like tobacco, rice etc. they had no rights under the law. Slaves live under terrible conditions and were often separated from their families. The constitution was written and it did not mention anything about slavery. The early abolitionists were motivated by religion beliefs; most of them were Quakers who were the first abolitionist movement who believed that everyone had the same “spark of divinity” making slavery immoral. Benjamin Lundy was a Quaker who urged southerners to free their slaves. He wanted the nation to help move the blacks to Texas, Haiti or Canada (Texas at that time was part of Mexico). He didn’t attack the slave-owners he persuaded them to free them. Sarah and Angelina Grimke were converted to abolition by the Quakers. The sisters came from a slaveholding family. Americans were in shock because

The slaves were secretly transported from one house to another. The abolitionist Harriet Tubman escaped from the North, and she started rescuing slaves via the Underground Railroad. She became the conductor of the Underground Railroad. The colonization movement was a large anti-slavery movement that was supported by Southerners. It obviously opposed slavery and believed that harmony between white and blacks was impossible. Henry Clay (House Speaker), James Monroe (president) and John Marshall (chief Justice) supported the colonization movement. Most blacks refused colonization; they insisted that U.S was their