George Barrell Cheever Protagonist of Abolition.

The article profiles abolitionist clergyman George Barrell Cheever and discusses the role of religious emotionalism and morality in antislavery movements that contributed to the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. As a pastor, Cheever delivered sermons and speeches characterizing slavery as a sin. The influence of religion and morality on the views of abolitionists such as former U.S. senators Daniel Webster and Charles Sumner, former U.S. president John Quincy Adams and journalist William Lloyd Garrison is also discussed. Moral aspects of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln are also commented on.