Answer: Southern state legislatures banned antislavery material. Southern hospitality for abolitionists was a rope with a noose or a whip. By the late 1830s, there were no known abolitionists in the South, and northern abolitionists were seen committing acts of violence against the South.
Abolitionists believed that slavery was a national sin and that it was the moral obligation of every American to help eradicate it from the American landscape by gradually freeing the slaves and returning them to Africa..