Abolishing Slavery In The 18th Century

The beginning of the 18th centuries there were an augment in pleas to abolish slavery in the United States of America. At the time, there were two sides, northern, and southern debating against, and in favor of slavery respectively. The northerners’ states where slavery was legal, but not economically important and the southerners’ states whose economies were heavily dependent on slavery. According to most northerners, they became to dislike slavery and distrust southern political power. Some became active and organized opponents of slavery and worked for its abolition nationwide. For the abolitionists, it was degrading to the Negros’ intellectual capacity not to mention their humanity, for them to be viewed as an inferior race to that of the …show more content…
They argued that Africans were inferior to Europeans and they used this to help justify slavery. Many planters and merchant worried their economic growth would be ruined. Therefore, they should continue the slave trade. Although the idea of abolishing slavery had been present in the American colonies since the 17th century, the Abolitionist Movement did not become a significant force in America until the time of the American Revolution. The Quakers were the first group in Delaware that took an active role in abolishing slavery. Through the early to mid-18th century, many Quakers were a slave, owners. They didn't feel they could be proper Christians and keep slaves. They felt like everybody should be equal, therefore, they wanted to abolish slavery. Economics played a major role in building the Abolitionist Movement. Since the early to mid-18th century, Delaware farmers began switching their stable crop from tobacco to wheat and corn. Tobacco, with its intensive labor requirements, was the main reason many slaves were brought to Delaware. Corn still lent itself to slavery, but it did not require the number of slaves required by tobacco. However, the cultivation of wheat did not need the daily nurturing that tobacco required. Therefore, the need for slave labor was beginning to …show more content…
If it wasn’t for the final parliamentary reform, campaigns and religious groups getting together to abolish slavery our ancestor would be still in slavery in the world would not have been a better place. Many people were very prejudiced in their beliefs. Slavery’s primary victims, mostly knowing nothing of the Declaration itself, would corroborate its truth by their various acts of resistance, displaying their natural love of liberty and their moral humanity as rights possessors. These displays of humanity would naturally arouse the sympathy of non-slaveholders, a few of whom at first, and more with the passage of time, would take up the cause of abolition. Frederick Douglas as a free man reflective of racial prejudice that it was wrong how slaves had been mistreated. Why was it important for them to have liberty and be