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Opponents of slavery used legal, religious, and economic arguments to defend their position of the institution of slavery.
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Opponents of slavery used legal, religious, and economic arguments to defend their position of the institution of slavery. Mostly composed of the people from the North, many people wanted to do away with the evils of slavery. They felt it was immoral to call any person property of another. Opponents of slavery came up with many ideas to try to put an end to slavery such as works by David Wilmot, the formation of the Republican Party, Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists, or those who worked to dispose of slavery, did everything in their power to seek justice. David Wilmot proposed his proviso, which stated, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territory gained from Mexico. In the North, the Wilmot Proviso became a rallying cry for those who opposed slavery. Within time, legislatures of fourteen states endorsed the...
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