The abolitionist movement in the 1800s aimed to end slavery and the slave trade, bringing freedom and equal rights to African Americans. Prominent figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison actively campaigned, lectured, and published against slavery. Their efforts led to the 13th Amendment in 1865, abolishing slavery and transforming society.

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The 19th-century abolitionist movement sought to end slavery and the slave trade, granting freedom and equal rights to African Americans. Figures like Douglass, Tubman, and Garrison campaigned, lectured, and published against slavery, resulting in the 1865 13th Amendment that abolished slavery and reshaped society.