Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was so outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest against it.
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he was an educated black man who escaped to the north during the civil war. he became an abolitionist and published an autobiogaphy.
An abolitionist was important in the civil war because abolitionists wanted to abolish or get rid of slavery. And for a lot of people the war was about slavery.
The abolitionist did not help the war start, actually, the Civil War started because of States' Rights, Slavery, and Sectionalism/seccession. They could fall under the category of slavery but they were only a mild influence.
a Charleston Mercury editorial published in 1860
a Charleston Mercury editorial published in 1860