Radical libertarians:
- attacked slavery and the institutions that allow it
- felt it wasn't enough to attack the practice of slavery, they had to change the entire government
- the ownership of one human was the most extreme affront to the principle defining the libertarian philosophy
- impatient with negotiations
- Their demands and agitation were considered a catalyst for the national division that led to the civil war
- William Lloyd Garrison:
- wanted immediate emancipation
- created The Liberator, a newspaper which advocated for slaves freedom
- supported by free African Americans
- American Anti-Slavery society
- met in Philadelphia December, 1833
- denounced slavery as a sin
- Received moral and financial support from African American communities in the North
- David Walker
- wanted slaves to fight for their freedom
- demanded for immediate dismantlement of slavery
- believed blacks had the ability to end slavery on their own
- Published Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
- willing to make changes slowly
- believed in gradual abolition
- prohibited further importation of slaves into Pennsylvania
- required slave holders to annually register slaves
- model for freeing slaves in the north
- other states assumed Pennsylvania laws
- Free-soil activists:
- fought to restrict slavery to existing areas
- wanted to prevent slavery from spreading west
- didn't want slavery abolished completely
- Frederick Douglas
- wanted to end slavery through non-violent political movements
- i.e. voting, petitions, and laws
- published the North Star
- wanted to end slavery through non-violent political movements