Abolitionists and Antislavery people


Abolitionist:   Someone who wants slavery abolished in all of the U.S. in the very near future.
 
Radical abolitionist:  Someone who wants slavery abolished in all of the U.S. in the very near future and also wants full political and social rights for Blacks.  Famous radical abolitionists included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.   


Antislavery person: 

Type 1:  Someone who thought slavery was bad for both blacks and whites and wanted slavery totally abolished someday, but wanted slavery's expansion into the western territories halted immediately.  They were not for equal rights of blacks but they would not prohibit free blacks from moving west (e.g. Abraham Lincoln)  

 Type 2:  Someone who wanted slavery prohibited from immediate expansion into the west, but only for the sake of northern (free labor) whites.  They would be against free blacks in the west  (e.g. David Wilmot).  



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