American Anti Slavery Society

 

    

The American Anti Slavery Society was an abolitionist group on the mid to late 1800’s. Abolitionists are people who believe in the abolishment of slavery. This organization was founded by William Loyd Garrison. Garrison was a well known abolitionists well as a journalist. Garrison had a passion for journalism and found it as his true calling. Here is when he discovered what he also felt passionately about which was the abolishment of slavery. In the 1830s he started the Liberator which was an abolitionist paper. He did this because wanted to break away from colonized America. 

The American Anti Slavery Society was founded in the year 1833. Their goal was to teach both the northeners and southerners of the inhumanities of slavery and why it should be abolished. What makes this group different from the others is their intent to abolish slavery immediately. Other groups during this time would take slower approach to ending slaver but not the American Anti Slavery Society. They believed that all people should have the same political, social and economic rights. The members in the group typically came from religious circles and philanthropic backgrounds, with several African American members. Several African Americans served on the board of management giving them very important roles in this organization. 

Throughout the years the American Anti Slavery Society managed to attract over 150,000 members. They worked extremely hard to achieve their goal of the abolishment of slavery. In even the year 1836 they held 70 lectures alone to share their message to their southern and northern audiences. Protests, meetings, petitions, journals and propaganda were all distributed to get their message across, and in the end it worked.