Massachusetts was a major location involved in the social advocacy movement of abolitionism.
The animal rights movement , sometimes called the animal liberation movement , animal personhood , or animal advocacy movement , is a social movement which seeks an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals , an end to the status of animals as property , and an end to their use in the research , food , clothing , and entertainment industries . Massachusetts . Before the American Civil War , Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist , temperance , and transcendentalist movements .