Abolitionists appealed to their fellow citizen's morality by arguing past the free soil stance that many of the northerners took prior to the Civil War. After the Mexican cession when much of the western territory that we know as our country now was gained, the government prohibited the furthering of slavery. The common idea with the free soil political stance, was that if they could prevent slavery from spreading, that slavery would eventually end. Abolitionists not only pointed out the fact that this was not the case, and that slavery was not going anywhere, but mass produced different forms of media going into depth on the horrors of slavery. Producing newspapers and leaflets, sharing poems, stories, etc. Eventually pushing to convince their fellow citizens that the road to abolition was through violence. This eventually leading to the Civil War.
