The abolitionist movement spanned decades. Although it was far from a peaceful end to slavery, a group of men quickly became the forces and strength to move forward with the anti-slavery movement. The movement itself gained its greatest influence from 1829-1850. Abolitionists wanted to bring an end to slavery with non-violent means by trying to persuade the public as well as try to bring in anti-slavery politicians into electoral positions. When this did not work, a war to have slavery come to an end began. David Walker was one of the first to attack slavery, condemning it as an act of evil and immorality and called on all African’s to fight back. He believed that violence would be the only way to bring slavery to an end. As a quote from his
