Quakers and Anti-Slavery
Quaker Resolution against Slavery, a piece writing in May of 1652. It was a time of difference, dispute, division and despair. Slavery rested on the shoulders of many citizen, including slave owners, but mostly on the hearts of Quakers. Quakers begin a settle stirring beneath the surface that led to an uprising against slavery, at which ultimately changed the perspective of many Americans.
Quakers were undeniably the minority of their time, believing all men were created equally. They stood tall and proud apart from mainstream American religion. Prior to the Revolutionary era Quakers dominated Philadelphia, which was one of the largest cities in America at the time. They stood out in crowds for their choice of verbiage, as they believed their words and actions were that of god at which was presences inside each and every one of us.
With such strong moral integrity, Quakers felt compelled to speak up and take action against the wrong doing in America, including …show more content…
Despite their efforts, the moral question of slavery would not be joined nationally until a decade before the Civil War. As American abolitionism caused strife as it essentially accused of disrupting the peace between the North and South. Sadly this split was went unresolved for years, upon decades. The 1860 presidential victory of Lincoln was the turning point. Lincoln was opposed the spread of slavery to the Western United States. In fear, Southern states seceded from the Union, as they were convinced that their way of life was threatened. These sequence of events are what eventually led to the American Civil War. Finally,1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves held in the Confederate States, as well as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited slavery throughout the
Quaker Resolution against Slavery, a piece writing in May of 1652. It was a time of difference, dispute, division and despair. Slavery rested on the shoulders of many citizen, including slave owners, but mostly on the hearts of Quakers. Quakers begin a settle stirring beneath the surface that led to an uprising against slavery, at which ultimately changed the perspective of many Americans.
Quakers were undeniably the minority of their time, believing all men were created equally. They stood tall and proud apart from mainstream American religion. Prior to the Revolutionary era Quakers dominated Philadelphia, which was one of the largest cities in America at the time. They stood out in crowds for their choice of verbiage, as they believed their words and actions were that of god at which was presences inside each and every one of us.
With such strong moral integrity, Quakers felt compelled to speak up and take action against the wrong doing in America, including …show more content…
Despite their efforts, the moral question of slavery would not be joined nationally until a decade before the Civil War. As American abolitionism caused strife as it essentially accused of disrupting the peace between the North and South. Sadly this split was went unresolved for years, upon decades. The 1860 presidential victory of Lincoln was the turning point. Lincoln was opposed the spread of slavery to the Western United States. In fear, Southern states seceded from the Union, as they were convinced that their way of life was threatened. These sequence of events are what eventually led to the American Civil War. Finally,1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves held in the Confederate States, as well as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited slavery throughout the