Many antislavery books were written throughout the period of the transatlantic slave trade, the first being published in 1688 and penned by Aphra Behn.
Despite not being able to vote, speak at antislavery conferences, or sign antislavery petitions, women played a huge role in the publicity and propagation of the abolition movement.
As with prescribers to the movement, not all Quakers were antislavery; still, by the 1780s, the Quakers passed an edict barring any Quaker from owning slaves.
One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown. He was an antislavery extremist. Many people also considered him a madman.
The American Civil War The American Civil War, 1861-65, is now intrinsically linked to the abolition of slavery and was the culmination of many years of antislavery sentiment.
In America, the movement began as the American Colonization Society in 1816. At this time, antislavery wasn't synonymous with equal rights for Blacks and instead focused on sending the formerly enslaved people back to Africa.