Abolitionism-s: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

In spite of the end of the transatlantic slave trade, people who advocated the abolition o slav-ery proper remained at the margins of society until the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). In 1831, the biggest ever slave revolt in the history oft he United States was led by Nat Turner. He and a few dozen activists started killing white people following what they thought were divine or-ders. The revolt was crushed, Turner hanged and skinned, and his fellows also executed. Anti-slave legislation was toughened, and the living conditions of slaves worsened. Moral time, on the other hand, was going into the other direction. In Britain, the Slavery Abolition Act went into force in 1834 and transmitted the sense that keeping slavery alive would soon be consid-ered anachronistic. The reactionary policy in the South of the U.S. did not make much sense anymore anywhere else. The killing of Elijah P. Lovejoy in 1837 and the passing of the Fugi-tive Slave Act in 1850 infuriated liberals and made Harriet Beecher-Stowe write Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. Radical Abolitionist John Brown tried to start a civil war to free the slaves with his raid on an armory at Harper’s Ferry – and while, of course, he was defeated, tried and  executed in 1859, his memory served to motivate Northerners ever more to end slavery as soon as possible.

With the election of Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency (1860), the civil war (1861), the emancipation declaration (1862), the Dutch turn away from slavery in 1863, and the passing of the 13th amendment in 1865, things changed. After Spain abolished slavery on Cuba (1880) and Brazil proclaimed abolition in 1888, the page was turned.  

1862 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Preliminary and tactical

1865 13th Amendment of US Constitution Ending slavery in the USA End justifies means

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