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.
The Arno River (C) is an important river located in the Tuscan Region of Italy and was an important geographic feature which helped Florence to become a trade center.
Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible.
