Did extreme abolitionists do more harm than good?

Question

What suggestions would you have made to solve the slavery problems?

Answer 1

I personally feel that the abolitioonists were suffering from psychological rigidity and inflexibility, and they were too much judgementalists with an obsession of bieng right. they were tended to be concerned with having someone to blame for as "sinful" and those were slaveowners...many other western nations including brail, got rid of slavery without the use violence...so i do feel that..abotionalist were wrong..morever, sometimes hypocricy also reveals as the abotionalist were never concerning for its own racialism, its cruelty toward, and robbery of, its own underclass, even such injustices as its treatment of women.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, hind sight is 20/20. I believe the only thing that could have stopped the slavery problem is to turn that very first boat around and keep vigilant patrol and keep turning them around. Again, that would have stopped the problem here, but some other nation would have that issue and that really doesn't solve the problem, does it? It is a very dark stain on a country, the only country, formed on a good idea: all men are created equal.

Answer 3

Without the Civil War, there likely would still be a form if indentured servitude in the South, as well as the North.
Without people like John Brown, clearly a fanatic, there may have been no civil war, but that's less than a certainty.
But it would appear that if his actions led eventually to freedom for the slaves, he and others like him did more good than harm.

Answer 4

Like John Brown? Exremists always do more harm than good it's just that they don't realise it. But it's doubtful that slavery would have been abolished without them and therefore they were necessary.

Answer 5

Extreme abolitionists???.....like who? and what exactly do you mean by extreme?

John Brown...are you kidding...though some may say he was "extreme"....yes, he did advocate violence...but geez....look at what he was fighting against....a culture/society that found it acceptable to sell humans as chattel.

So yes violence was used.......but look at what was being done, how slaves were treated...or should I say mistreated.

You can not come up with anyone else?...perhaps you consider ben franklin, Thomas paine, sojouner truth,harriet tubman, F. Douglass, all those that worked on the underground railroad(and the list goes on and on) extreme abolitoinists also???????

Temp-GMAB.....and go learn some history!

Answer 6

Well the fanatics like John Brown and his followers caused definite problems, it showed that some were willing to sacrifice themselves for what they thought was right.

Answer 7

Ship them back. That really would have solved a lot of problems.

Answer 8

Give them freedom, but shoot anyone on site who supported affirmative action or welfare after 20 years.