Oz Frankel , Journal Editor W. Caleb McDaniel No Union with Slaveholders: A Radical, Practical Abolitionist Plan Nineteenth-century American abolitionists led by William Lloyd Garrison urged their followers to rally around the unpopular motto “No Union with Slaveholders.” Beginning two decades before the Civil War, they argued that the only way to end slavery was to dissolve the Union. These “disunionists” were criticized by other reformers at the time for doing nothing to a