antiabolitionists
Pro-slavery faction members
Antiabolitionists were those who opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States before the Civil War.
The term describes people who actively resisted the antislavery movement—whether through political opposition, mob violence against abolitionists, or defense of slavery as an institution: Antiabolitionists burned the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper in Illinois.
Favoring legalized human ownership
- slaveholderOwner of enslaved persons
- plantation economyAgricultural system exploiting enslaved workers
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
Fugitive Slave Act · John C. Calhoun · Missouri Compromise · Compromise of 1850 · Kansas-Nebraska Act · secession · Jefferson Davis · Copperheads
Favoring legalized human ownership
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
- paternalismControlling others for their good
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
property rights · scientific racism · social order · agrarianism
Something blocking the way
- mob violenceGroup-inflicted harm
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
vigilantism · tarring and feathering · patrol · legislation · filibustering · nullification · voter suppression · terrorism
proslavery
Favoring legalized human ownership
- slaveholderOwner of enslaved persons
- plantation economyAgricultural system exploiting enslaved workers
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
Dred Scott · Fugitive Slave Act · John C. Calhoun · Missouri Compromise · Compromise of 1850 · Kansas-Nebraska Act · secession · Jefferson Davis · Copperheads · Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
- Jefferson DavisConfederacy's only president
proslavery
Favoring legalized human ownership
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
- paternalismControlling others for their good
states' rights · property rights · scientific racism · social order · agrarianism
obstruction
Something blocking the way
- mob violenceGroup-inflicted harm
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
suppression · vigilantism · tarring and feathering · patrol · legislation · filibustering · nullification · voter suppression · terrorism
chattel
Movable personal property
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- auctionCompetitive public sale
overseer · manacle · shackle · whip · slave trade · cotton · tobacco · sugar · fugitive · plantation
antiabolitionistsabolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
emancipationists · freedom fighters · Frederick Douglass · liberationists · Harriet Tubman