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Which group began the abolition movement in the United Sates?

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Worldwide the abolitionist movement began in 1688 when German and Dutch Quakers published a pamphlet denouncing the practice. In the United States, by the 1830s, evangelical Christian groups in New England became drawn with the cause of abolitionism

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