murdered.

Abolitionists found support for their position in the contention
that other communities had abolished slavery without such
accompanying horrors as occurred in Hayti and without serious
race conflict. Slavery had run its course in Spanish America, and
emancipation accompanied or followed the formation of independent
republics. In 1833 all slaves in the British Empire were
liberated, including those in the important island of Jamaica. So
it happened that, just at the time when Southern leaders were
making up their minds to defend their peculiar institution at all
hazards, they were beset on every side by the spirit of
emancipation. Abolitionists, on the other hand, were fully
convinced that the attainment of some form of emancipation in the
United States was certain, and that, either peaceably or through
violence, the slaves would ultimately be liberated.



CHAPTER III. EARLY CRUSADERS

At the time when the new cotton industry was enhancing the value
of slave labor, there arose from the ranks of the people those
who freely consecrated their all to the freeing of the slave.
Among these, Benjamin Lundy, a New Jersey Quaker, holds a
significant place.

Though the Society of Friends fills a large place in the
anti-slavery movement, its contribution to the growth of the
conception of equality is even more significant. This impetus to