These include: 1  Perspiration (sweating) to cool the body. 2  Protection from the elements. 3  Sensing what's in contact with our bodies. 4  Communication with other human beings through touch. 5  Storage of water and lipids. 6  Formation of vitamin D from the Sun. 7  Water resistance. 8  Heat regulation.
Birth of the Movement. The modern American abolition movement emerged in the early 1830s as a by-product of religious revivalism popularly known as the Second Great Awakening. Revivalistic tenets led abolitionists to see slavery as the product of personal sin and to demand emancipation as the price of repentance.
By this time he had worked as co-editor of an antislavery paper started by Benjamin Lundy in Maryland, The Genius of Universal Emancipation. And on January 1, 1831, he published the first issue of his own anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator. In speaking engagements and through the Liberator and other publications, Garrison advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves.