Abraham Lincoln and William Lloyd Garrison both believed that slavery was a moral issue.
Nominally both, if one separates out the moral issues that may exist with the economy.
Frederick Douglass felt that the biggest issue with regard to slavery was that it was morally indefensible. He believed that no one should be owned by another man, so slavery was fundamentally flawed.
Abolitionists argued that slavery was morally wrong.
abolitionists argued that slavery was morally wrong
Abolitionists agrued that slavery was morally wrong.
Abraham Lincoln and William Lloyd Garrison both believed that slavery was a moral issue.
He thought that it was a moral issue
moral
as an economic issue
as an economic issue
There are two main issue of the time and those were "State Rights" and "the moral issue of Slavery"... but they are pretty much interconnected because states believed they had a right to make its own laws dealing with slavery and the federal government had no rights in dealing with this issue within the state.
Moral slavery can be defined as the morality issue that was deemed to exist between a slave and the master. Friedrich Nietzsche made an attempt to define the issues of morality in relation to slavery.
Nominally both, if one separates out the moral issues that may exist with the economy.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
Slavery was not something you could half-abolish.
Frederick Douglass felt that the biggest issue with regard to slavery was that it was morally indefensible. He believed that no one should be owned by another man, so slavery was fundamentally flawed.