At this time in history the intention of the anti-slavery movement was to gradually reach the emancipation of most slaves, to restrict slavery to specific areas and prohibit slavery throughout western expansion. The Second Great Awakening brought forth a new form of thinking. The Evangelists of this movement brought up many abolitionists that believed in the immediate emancipation of all slaves and end of racial discrimination. These new developing views became quite prominent in the mid thirties therefore increasing the intense animosity over slavery between the South and North. One of the key Evangelists, Charles Grandison Finney “Denounced slavery at the pulpit. He denied communion to slaveholders in his church.” Finney’s church became the
