Is it true that the abolition movement in the 1800s was also to stop the

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wealthy people in the south? So they wanted to take away the slaves so they would make less money?
 
Not really. Abolition was a movement to end slavery....abolitionists believed that slavery could not be fixed or reformed - it needed to abolished. Abolitionists didn't care about money, social status of South vs North economics...it was a social reform movement.
 
I'd never heard that before, but it is an interesting notion. I'd like to think that inhibiting the Southern upper class was merely a side effect to the abolitionist movement. There were some righteous, ethical people fighting for abolition whose motives I wouldn't question.
 
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