Slavery And The Abolitionist Movement

The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation where social and economic histories were driven by cotton and slave labor. Cotton was a desirable commodity around the world and a highly profitable business for the South. However, cotton was a labor-intensive business and the large number of workers required to grow and harvest cotton came from slave labor. Many people who were invested in the cotton industry could not afford to eliminate slavery because slavery was the fuel that kept Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin turning. Over time, abolitionists grew more persuasive in their demands and pro-slavery group of people revolted which ultimately led to an American Civil War. J.D.B. De Bow and Samuel …show more content…
Morton believed that the size of the skull, gave an accurate measure of intelligence. In fact, their “brain is nine cubic inches less than the white man’s.” Also, according to medical repository, the black color, thick lips, and flat noses resemble a disease known as Leprosy. This is known as the lowest grade of humanity based on their appearance and chemical composition. There would be complete chaos in the world with free slaves because “the Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts.” Anyone who supported the institution of slavery were not true Christians because “They were devils dressed in angels’ garments.” The only way to be a good Christian was to be anti-slavery because a man was created in the image of god. Religion and Slavery did not go hand in hand. “While you hear the chanting of psalms in one, you hear the clanking of chains in the other.” Many supporters of the Abolitionist movement believed that Slavery is contrary to the principles of natural justice, of our republican form of government, and of the Christian religion, and is destructive of the prosperity of the