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A 5 page essay that draws on Fergus M. Bordewich's Bound for Canaan, a history of the Underground Railroad, in order to argue on whether or not the abolition of slavery could have occurred without the abolitionist movement. The writer argues that it could not and that the abolitionist cause was justified in defying the laws of the era. No additional sources cited.
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War as one that battled over states rights, rather than over the issue of slavery, with the South asserting that, left to its own devices, it would have eventually abolished
slavery, as the need for an agrarian workforce diminished. Could this have actually happened? Could slavery have been abolished without an abolitionist movement and the resistance that this movement offered
to the laws sustaining slavery? Given the evidence of history, this is extremely doubtful, and, in the light of this conclusion, the abolitionists defiance of these unjust laws was morally
and ethically justifiable as these people moved the country toward more equitable standards of liberty. In this book, Bound for Canaan, author Fergus M. Bordewich offers a detailed history
of the Underground Railroad, and, in so doing, also presents the reader with an insightful introduction into the social and political context of the antebellum era. As alien as it
may seem to modern sensibilities, prior to the American Civil War, the idea of emancipation seemed "subversive and outlandish to most Americans" (Bordewich 4). The men and women who participated
in the Underground Railroad defied the societal standards of their era on an almost daily basis, participating in acts of courage that were inspired by "a sense of spiritual imperative,
moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4). In setting the stage for understanding the era, Bordewich relates
numerous biographies that illustrate what life was like for slaves. This gives the reader a sense of the futility and hopelessness, as well as the rage and anger, that slaves
often felt as they were caught in the grip of systematic depersonalization and injustice. For example, Josiah Hensons father, for daring to defend his wife against a white man, was
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