<P> Stressing the Yankee Protestant ideals of self - improvement, industry, and thrift, most abolitionists--most notably William Lloyd Garrison--condemned slavery as a lack of control over one's own destiny and the fruits of one's labor . </P> <P> Wendell Phillips, one of the most ardent abolitionists, attacked the Slave Power and presaged disunion as early as 1845: </P> <P> The experience of the fifty years...shows us the slaves trebling in numbers--slaveholders monopolizing the offices and dictating the policy of the Government--prostituting the strength and influence of the Nation to the support of slavery here and elsewhere--trampling on the rights of the free States, and making the courts of the country their tools . To continue this disastrous alliance longer is madness....Why prolong the experiment? </P> <P> Abolitionists also attacked slavery as a threat to the freedom of white Americans . Defining freedom as more than a simple lack of restraint, antebellum reformers held that the truly free man was one who imposed restraints upon himself . Thus, for the anti-slavery reformers of the 1830s and 1840s, the promise of free labor and upward social mobility (opportunities for advancement, rights to own property, and to control one's own labor), was central to the ideal of reforming individuals . </P>

Which situation was the immediate result of the united states civil war