The abolitionist movement was a social and political push for the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for emancipation separated abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates, who argued for gradual emancipation, and from âFree-Soilâ activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread.
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Years later, in the 1970s, leaders in the state rebuked efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which the United States Congress submitted to the states in 1972 and which would have made discrimination based on gender unconstitutional.