Abolitionist view slavery in a whole different perspective than whites did. Sinning against the nation, whites were tearing these innocent humans down for their benefit and abolitionist would not stand for such acts. Frederick Douglass had strong view on slavery and disapproved of all the treatment given out to such innocent people. In Douglass’s speech, in 1894 he stated, “”To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is to deny them the means of freedom and the rightful pursuit of happiness, and to defeat the very end of their being.”” Douglass hated the fact that education was not an option to slaves or any black person for that matter because they might use it against the whites and try to change the superiority of the races.
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Fighting, Douglass did anything he could from speeches to helping slaves escape to get the pro-slavery people to change their minds on the way they used slavery. Another famous abolitionist point of view would be Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dealing with death, Harriet was crushed by the death of her child and witnessing the selling of her family members pushed her to speak out about the issues slaves had faced. Irate, she began to write novels that began to help people understand how whites regarded the slaves in the sense of referring to them as
Fighting, Douglass did anything he could from speeches to helping slaves escape to get the pro-slavery people to change their minds on the way they used slavery. Another famous abolitionist point of view would be Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dealing with death, Harriet was crushed by the death of her child and witnessing the selling of her family members pushed her to speak out about the issues slaves had faced. Irate, she began to write novels that began to help people understand how whites regarded the slaves in the sense of referring to them as