Abolition: Turning America’s conscience against the sins of slavery

The chapter “Abolition: Turning America’s conscience against the sins of slavery” discuss about the slavery system in United States and talked about different people who try to abolish slavery. Slavery is defined as the state of being under the control of another person. But when we go back in history it seems much worse than that. People were tortured, murdered, and enslaved for years and years. To abolish slavery there came many abolitionists and fought for slavery. During their fight they had suffer a lot. They get physical torture, mental torture. Their property gets destroyed. For instance: one famous abolitionist was Rev. Elijah Lovejoy. He had multiple printing presses that were destroyed by people who were pro-slavery. Again if they talk against them then they have to lose their life like Elijah Lovejoy. Elijah Lovejoy talk against pro-slavery even though he got the warning and physical torture. Finally, for the fourth time he was attacked for the destruction of press. He tried to save it from destruction and he was shot and killed. Journalists who spoke out against slavery in the 1800’s didn’t last long and they were usually silenced. Lovejoy never backed down from his protest and even though he was killed his legacy continued. Lovejoy gave journalist the courage to continue speaking out against what is wrong and he gave journalists the courage to continue picking themselves up no matter how many times they were knocked down. If you believe in something and your passion about it then you continue pursuing it until your voice is heard. One voice could alter an entire future.