b. Opposed violence to achieve an end to slavery.
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, several slave-holders, uneasy over bondage in a country of liberty, declared that servitude was an "intrinsic evil." By the 1830s, as abolitionist assaults on bondage strengthened, slaveholders now maintained captivity was a "positive good."
Abolitionist members of William Lloyd Garrison commonly encountered violence to accomplish an end to servitude. Garrison was the preeminent defender of "immediate emancipation." Other abolitionists requested for a progressive abolition or expansion. Garrison desired to end captivity but did not promote brutality to accomplish his purposes.