More white women than black women were prominent in the abolitionist movement, for a variety of reasons: Although the movement of all women was restricted by social convention, white women had more freedom than black women to move about. White women were more likely to have the income to support themselves while doing abolitionist work.
The compromises were reached concerning enslaved people were The Northern states <span>had already banned the slave trade. They wanted to prohibit it nationwide.</span>
