Why did dubious about abolitionism as a way of life

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Book: A Disease in the Public Mind by Thomas Fleming

Background to question: Fleming describes a "big, muscular" abolitionist who practiced itinerant preaching, traveling to towns and holding revival meetings to condemn slavery, often bringing himself "to the point of physical and emotional collapse...." Along with two abolitionist sisters, he even published a best-selling book.

Despite his success, why did this man become "dubious about abolitionism as a way of life," so much so that he "withdrew from the abolitionist crusade"? Try to make this into a paragraph.

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