Discuss the range of antislavery positions and mention at least one person who exemplified each position?

Answer 1

I certainly don't know them all, but here's a shot at a couple and perhaps you can piece together a paper or answer from them:

William Lloyd Garrison was a Northern abolitionist. He was so much opposed to slavery that he thought the North should secede from the South so that a moral North wouldn't haven't to work together with, nor compromise with an immoral South.

Abraham Lincoln, president, who believed that while slavery was wrong, it also was something that might have to be tolerated and lived with for awhile before it was removed. It wasn't until half way through the Civil War that he changed the language of the war to indicate it was really being fought to free the slaves.

Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery would eventually tear America apart. He believed it was wrong but was like "holding a wolf by the ears". You didn't like it very much but you'd better not let go. He was opposed to slavery, but owned slaves.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave from Maryland who became a principle spokesman for abolitionism in the North. He believed it was morally wrong and therefore he also argued in his autobiography that slavery hurt the slave owner more than the slave. Ironically he refused an offer to combine the movement to give freed slaves the right to vote with the movement to give women the right to vote.