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American Anti-Slavery Society
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American Anti-Slavery Society
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 2358 Includes: BibliographyIn the 1830s some Americans took a bold and uncompromising stand on the issue of slavery, demanding its immediate abolition without either colonization or compensation to slave owners. Sixty-two such like-minded opponents of slavery from nine states gathered in Philadelphia in December 1833 to form the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). William Lloyd Garrison, who two years earlier had begun publication of the Liberator, which took as its motto “No Union with Slaveholders,” was one of the guiding lights behind the formation of the AASS and authored its Declaration of Sentiments. Others present at the convention included the wealthy New Yorkers Lewis and Arthur Tappan and the radical New Englander Samuel J. May. Four Quaker women and three African Americans also attended the meeting. The newly formed organization's ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 367 Includes: BibliographyMilitant nineteenth-century abolitionist organization. The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was founded in Philadelphia on December 4, 1833, at a meeting attended by sixty-two abolitionist delegates representing eleven states. It was an American version of the Anti-Slavery Society, which was established in London in the 1780s and had succeeded in abolishing slavery in the British colonies. Founding members of the AASS included prominent white New England and New York abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur and Lewis Tappan as well as several African Americans from Pennsylvania, including James Forten, Robert Purvis, and James Crummell.The society pressed for the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery, sponsored speaking tours of white and black orators such as the eloquent former slave ...
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Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 449The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was founded in 1833 by a small group of radicals calling for the immediate abolition of slavery. The leading spirit was William Lloyd Garrison, whose interaction with black abolitionists inspired him to reject colonization as a means of eradicating slavery. The founders of the AASS did not condone a violent overthrow of the slave system, but believed that moral suasion would convince slaveholders of its evils.Abolitionists soon came to disagree over the necessity of violence, the position of women in the movement, and the role of politics and organized religion in the antislavery cause. These divisions reached a critical point in 1839 when a majority in the AASS voted to allow women to serve as delegates to antislavery conventions. Led by Lewis Tappan ...
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