THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Farmers
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Blacks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most of the earliest of these were organized by the Society of Friends, or Quakers. The very first one, The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, had formed in 1774 and helped to pass Pennsylvania’s Gradual Abolition Act of 1780, the first anti-slavery legislation in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -In December 19833, the three most active antislavery organizations, the Philadelphia Quakers, the New England Garrisonians, and the New York Reformers, met with freed blacks to form an organization called the America Anti-Slavery Society. Abolitionists initially focused their efforts on church members and clergymen.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society (SFASS) was founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1832. It was established by and for free Black women. It was the first female abolitionist society founded in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Frances Wright was one of many women-including sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké (who were from a slave-owning Southern family) and Lucretia Mott-who lectured against slavery. Even as women became more active in the cause, many of their fellow antislavery activists continued to disapprove of these female speakers.