Abolition/Emancipation Reform

-Abolition is the call to outlaw slavery.

-Emancipation is the freeing of slaves without payment to slaveholder.

-Abolitionist believed in the freedom of slaves and the equal treatment of blacks.

-Before the Abolition Movement, blacks considered themselves citizens of the U.S.

-But whites thought of blacks as inferior.

-Both white and blacks joined the abolition movement.

-Some blacks were granted freedom, while others were still unslaved.

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