American Anti-Slavery Society post

     The American Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur Tappan and Frederick Douglas, that lasted from 1833 to 1870. William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Arthur Tappan an American businessman, philanthropist and abolitionist. Frederick Douglas was an American slave and an abolitionist.

       The American Anti Slavery Society was part of a larger religious revival that believed slavery was a sin, and that slaveholders were sinners. Knowing that slavery was illegal, if not under the Constitution, then certainly under natural law. The society had agents that traveled throughout the country producing lectures, distributing anti-slavery journals, and organizing local anti-slavery societies. It petitioned Congress to end slavery immediately in Washington and in any Federal territories. There was much opposition to the Anti-Slavery Society in the North, especially from business owners who depended on imports from the slave states. Abolitionists had their efforts proved to be extremely effective, focusing attention so much on slavery that it made it difficult to ignore. However, attention is not all good, the society was considered controversial, and its activities were sometimes met with violence. Tension was so heightened; Abolitionists had threatened to destroy the unity of the nation until there was justice. Eventually there were more than 400 chapters and by 1838 the number had grown to 1,350, with more than 250,000 members. members protested the African slave trade, the perpetual bondage of its captives, and the practice of separating enslaved family members by sale to different masters.

    As the nineteenth century progressed, these groups sent petitions with thousands of signatures to Congress, held abolition meetings and conferences, boycotted products made with slave labor, printed mountains of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause.Ultimately, the American Anti-Slavery Society was the largest and most influential abolitionist organization in the United States.