The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Abolitionists were inspired by the equality ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence contains many ideas about freedom, natural rights, and equality. These ideas inspired abolitionists in that they used those words and the Declaration to support their arguments for liberty, abolitionism, and the termination of slavery in the United States. They argued that if the Declaration of Independence contained those ideals, slavery had no reason to exist. The ideas of the Declaration of independence not only influenced the abolitionists but also other movements such as the women's suffrage.
