American Anti-Slavery Society
Movement | Defunct
1833 CE to 1870 CE
The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) is an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, and Arthur Tappan.
Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, is a key leader of this society who often speaks at its meetings.
William Wells Brown is also a freed slave who often speaks at meetings.
By 1838, the society has thirteen hundred and fifty local charters with around two hundred and fifty thousand members.
Noted members include Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet, Samuel Cornish, James Forten, Charles Lenox Remond, Sarah Parker Remond, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Robert Purvis, Augustine Clarke, Wendell Phillips, George T. Downing, and John Greenleaf Whittier, among others.
Headquartered in New York City, from 1840 to 1870 the society publishes a weekly newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
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