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.
In March 1839, a New York abolitionist newspaper called for a convention to unite the efforts of national anti-slavery forces from around the world.earn more about Benjamin Robert Haydonâs painting of the convention at The National Portrait Gallery. Delegates to the 1840 convention in London were united by the common goal of ending slavery in their time.