LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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Nations Association of the Advancement of Colored People[NAACP]
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National Urban League[NUL]
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American Anti-Slavery Society[AASS]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[LEXG]
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1832 he helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and, the following year, the American Anti-Slavery Society. These were the first organizations dedicated to promoting immediate emancipation. Garrison was unyeilding and steadfast in his beliefs.
Detailed explanation-3: -American Anti-Slavery Society, (1833–70), promoter, with its state and local auxiliaries, of the cause of immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. As the main activist arm of the Abolition Movement (see abolitionism), the society was founded in 1833 under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison.
Detailed explanation-4: -He published The Liberator every week for thirty-five years. He gave speeches and helped found antislavery societies. He worked with, inspired (and on occasion offended) activists such as Charles Lenox Remond, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, Wendell Phillips, and others.
Detailed explanation-5: -William Lloyd Garrison, (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.-died May 24, 1879, New York, New York), American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.