Proslavery Vs Abolitionist Movement

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In the years that follow up to the Civil war, the struggle between the abolitionists, antislavery who found slavery to be an abomination that must be stopped, and southerners who argued for the continuation of slavery, proslavery, was deeply rooted in the American society. For many southerners who were supported slavery, slavery was a critical to their way of life, their economic and social life. While the abolitionist movement that began to gains its momentum in the 1830s and 1840s, the proslavery were doing everything they could to fight for the acceptance or, if nothing else, the tolerance of slavery.

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