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American Anti-Slavery Society (66)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x728c (corporateBody)

American Anti-Slavery Society, also known as the AASS (established 1833–disestablished 1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was also a freed slave who often spoke at meetings. By 1838, the society had 1,350 local charters with around 250,000 members.

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Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (19)

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Originally known as the New-England Anti-Slavery Society; name.

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British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (15)

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Western Anti-slavery Society (8)

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The Western Anti-slavery Society based its operation in the Ohio Western Reserve, but was active throughout the Old Northwest and frontier states. Organized in 1842 as the Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society, it affiliated with the national American Anti-Slavery Society. It published the Anti-slavery Bugle from 1845-1861 in New Lisbon, and later, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. Abolitionist society formed prior to 1856 by residents of Salem and Alliance, Ohio....

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Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain) (8)

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Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society (6)

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American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (9)

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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (12)

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Powell Stackhouse (1785-1863) and his wife, Edith Stackhouse (1786-1866) were members of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District (of the Religious Society of Friends) in 1842, later Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.

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Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (4)

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Founded in 1837, the Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society was formed to "promote, by peaceful and Christian means, the emancipation of the enslaved, and the universal extension of the free principles inculcated in the Gospel of Love, and reiterated in the Bill of Rights of Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania Society was an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Members included Robert Purvis, Lindley Coates, James Mott, Mary Grew, Haworth Wetherald, Sarah Pugh, Edward M. Davis, Lucret...

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Vermont Anti-Slavery Society (4)

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