The abolition movement was heavily influenced by other social and economic changes. A) The rise in literacy, mostly by black people who suffered slavery, thanks to the common school (a public form of education, orientated to every kid, regardless of class or race), as well as B) the invention of steam printing press that improved the distribution of abolitionist flyers, and C) the ideas of freedom and the American dream sparked by the market revolution, were all key to the organization.