Abolitionists in Missouri
Two Kinds… Although there were people in Missouri throughout the pre-Civil War period who abhorred the institution of slavery, those who advocated its abolition were a minority. Their views were bitterly opposed and often suppressed by the irate proslavery forces. There were two kinds of abolitionists: (1) those who only advocated ending the system and (2) those who acted illegally to spirit slaves away. The Missouri slaveholder did not discriminate between the two and considered the first as bad as the second. …Among Three Groups Abolitionists in Missouri can be classified into three groups: (1) certain…