Topic > The Abolitionist Movement - 1079

Garrison expressed his sympathy for the slaves and quickly urged the public to abolish slavery so that riots, like Nat Turner, would no longer occur. He says: “The blood of millions of his children cries out for reparation! Only IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION can save her from the vengeance of Heaven and cancel the debt of the centuries!” Six months before the rebellion, Garrison wrote an article titled To the public, in which he loudly expressed the need to abolish slavery because it was a sin and morally wrong. Garrison says, “I am sincere, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat one inch, AND I WILL BE HEARD,” and includes a poem. In the poem he vows to never stop fighting to abolish slavery. He says: "I swear, while the life blood warms my throbbing veins, to oppose and oppose again, with heart and hands, your brutal dominion over the chains of Afric." Turner's Rebellion took place and Garrison's article gained more support for abolishing slavery. In 1932, Garrison helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society. Although Nat Turner's rebellion was unsuccessful, his rebellion caused a series of laws that made life more difficult for any black person in Virginia, which led to abolitionists having a deeper involvement in abolition.