The Anti-Slavery Advocates of Disunion

07/24/2026 Joshua Mawhorter

The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

Get Your July Rothbard Giveaway Book! The Origins of the Federal Reserve

The Anti-Slavery Advocates of Disunion