The Democratic-Republican Party, also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party and known at the time under various other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, political equality, and expansionism.

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Liberty Party (United States, 1840)

Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments.

And James Curry asserts in his narrative that, no matter how ignorant masters kept their slaves, it was “impossible to beat it into them that they were made to be slaves.” Masters’ sexual abuse of slaves.

What Is an Abolitionist? An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century.

Five Abolitionists

• Frederick Douglass, Courtesy: New-York Historical Society.
• William Lloyd Garrison, Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Angelina Grimké, Courtesy: Massachusetts Historical Society.
• John Brown, Courtesy: Library of Congress.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Courtesy: Harvard University Fine Arts Library.

Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or …