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.
Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poorer Europeans.