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The Abolition Movement in Virginia
A society for promoting abolition was organized by 1790, and publications appeared as early as St. George Tucker's Dissertation of 1796. The self-criticism and efforts for abolition ended, however, after Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831. From that point forward, the majority of white Virginians approved of the practice, denied its evils, and defended it [as a "positive good."] |