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| | Platform of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its auxiliaries. : a machine-readable transcription. |
 | | VIII.—The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held each year at such time and place as the Executive Committee may direct, when the accounts of the Treasurer shall be presented, the annual report read, appropriate addresses delivered, the officers chosen, and such other business transacted as shall be deemed expedient. | | | X.—This Constitution may be amended, at any annual meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided the amendments proposed have been previously submitted, in writing, to the Executive Committee. | | | They shall make arrangements for all meetings of the Society, make an annual written report of their doings, the expenditures and funds of the Society, and shall hold stated meetings, and adopt the most energetic measures in their power to advance the objects of the Society. |
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| | Anti-Slavery Society |
| | Lewis Tappan argued that: "To put a woman on the committee with men is contrary to the usages of civilized society." | | | Great controversy was created when three women, Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Chapman were elected to the executive committee of the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The abolition of slavery became the policy of the Liberal Party (1840-48), the Free-Soil Party (1848-54) and the Republican Party (founded in 1854). |
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| | Mainly compiled and condensed from the journals of Congress and other official records, and showing the vote by yeas and nays on the most important divisions in either house. | | | The Annual report with the addresses and resolutions. | | | Indiana, a redemption from slavery American commonwealths |
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| | Douglas: Anti-Slavery Movement |
| | The Annual Report of this Society affords the amplest and truest account of the anti-slavery movement, from year to year. | | | Strictly speaking, I say this is the only party in the country which is an abolition party. | | | The next recognized anti-slavery body is the Free Soil party, alias the Free Democratic party, alias-the Republican party. |
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | By 1840 its auxiliary societies numbered 2,000, with a total membership ranging from 150,000 to 200,000. | | | The antislavery issue entered the mainstream of American politics through the Free-Soil Party (1848–54) and subsequently the Republican Party (founded in 1854). | | | The windswept seacoast of this small northeastern state may have been the first part of what is now the United States seen by Europeans. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9006091
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| | Anti-Slavery Movement: Women in the Movement |
| | Lydia Maria Child, Lecretia Mott (who made her home a station on the Underground Railroad) and Maria Weston Chapman were also elected to the committee with great opposition. | | | In 1840, Abby Kelly’s election to the all-male committee split the Anti-Slavery Society. | | | “To put a woman on the committee with men is contrary to the usages of civilized society,” said member Lewis Tappan (Hughes 102). |
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http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/anti-slavery_movement/women.htm
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| | The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom |
| | The abolitionists were looking for evidence of cruelty and the evil profiteering involved in slavery. | | | Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation. | | | April 15, 1865) won the nomination for the presidency of the United States representing the Republican Party. |
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| | Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | The Library of Congress has a wealth of material that demonstrates the extent of public support for and opposition to abolition. | | | The group voted to petition Congress to prohibit the slave trade and also to appeal to the legislatures of the various states to abolish slavery. | | | The work was issued during the 1835-1836 campaign to have Congress abolish slavery in the Capital. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
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| | Timeline: The United States |
| | The Amistad Africans spend the year in jail. | | | Eventually, Missouri is admitted as a slave state, balanced by the admission of Maine as a free state. | | | Slavery entirely prohibited in Connecticut by state law. |
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One issue between the two sides was whether abolitionists should enter politics as a distinct party. | | | One party that formed from the disagreements concerning Garrison's leadership was the United States Liberty Party, a separate anti-slavery society that broke away from the American Anti-slavery Society. | | | A minority of pro-feminist delegates left the society as a result. |
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| | Underground Railroad: Anti-Slavery |
| | The Lincoln-Starksboro society had 485 members--among these members were many Quakers. | | | The Society also had depositories in Montpelier, Brandon, Vergennes, and Middlebury where people could read and purchase abolitionist newspapers, pamphlets, and books. | | | The Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society was Rowland Robinson. |
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| | American Anti-Slavery Society |
| | The society disbanded in 1870 after Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. | | | Tappan served on the executive committee with such prominent merchants and reformers as John Rankin and William Green, and his brother Arthur Tappan was president of the society. | | | The society was based in New York City and was dominated by New Yorkers until 1840. |
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| | Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is composed of two entities: the American Anti-Slavery Society (a new organisation founded in 1995 with the same name as the old American Anti-Slavery Society founded in 1833 by William LLloyd Garrison) and the Australian Anti-Slavery Society. | | | The Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain in 1823. | | | In 1839, a new Anti-Slavery Society, called the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was founded. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavery_Society
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| | American Civil War History and Civil War Events Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas |
| | Slavery had been abolished in most northern states, but was legal and important to the economy of the Confederacy, which depended on cheap agricultural labor. | | | The issue of whether new states would be slave states or free states: | | | Alarmed at the loss, and in an attempt to prevent more slave states from leaving the Union, the United States Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution on July 25 of that year which stated that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. |
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| | Manifesto by American Anti-Slavery Society |
| | ARTICLE IV.—Any person who consents to the principles of this Constitution, who contributes to the funds of this Society, and is not a Slaveholder, may be a member of this Society, and shall be entitled to vote at the meetings. | | | Devoted to immediate and uncompensated emancipation for African-American slaves, the members of the society drafted the following manifesto to articulate clearly their goals. | | | They based their opposition to slavery both on the principle of equality as stated in the Declaration of Independence and on the commands of Biblical scripture. |
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| | Abolitionists Opposing Slavery and Tobacco |
| | Garrison set up the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), and for 35 years, 1830-1865, published a newspaper, The Liberator, on a mission to lead to a major reform in America, the abolition of slavery. | | | At one point, Lincoln even offered the South a deal, the government would pay for the slaves, if emancipation were completed by the year 1900!!—37 years in the future. | | | The people treated the Constitution/Nation as an idol, felt they had to be preserved—reversing Acts 5:29 ("obey God rather than men"). |
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| | African American Registry: Anti-Slavery Society meets in Philadelphia |
| | The society encouraged public lectures, publications, civil disobedience, and the boycott of cotton and other slave-manufactured products. | | | The Society elected officers and adopted a constitution and declaration. | | | Coming from ten states the American Anti-slavery Society met in Philadelphia to create a national organization to bring about immediate emancipation of all slaves. |
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| | DOUGLASS : American Anti-Slavery Society, "Constitution," 4 December 1833 |
| | -- Any person who consents to the principles of this Constitution, who contributes to the funds of this Society, and is not a Slaveholder, may be a member of this Society, and shall be entitled to vote at the meetings. | | | DOUGLASS : American Anti-Slavery Society, "Constitution," 4 December 1833 | | | -- The objects of this Society are the entire abolition of Slavery in the United States. |
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| | Gilder Lehrman Center: Sources: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| | Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Held, for the transaction of business, At the fourth free church, New York On the 12th of May, and the three following days, 1840. | | | American Anti-Slavery Society, Proceedings of seventh annual meeting. | | | The success of the committee for the Amistad captives, in keeping at bay the Federal Executive, and preserving these unhappy men from sure death, is another indication. |
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| | The Anti-Slavery Society was privately established in New York in 1831. | | | The American Anti-Slavery Society itself was dissolved after they had achieved their goal with the passing of the 14 | | | Although deeply split in their views, all members of this society were working towards the one common cause of ending slavery and slave trade. |
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| | Expansion of Slavery (from American Civil War) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | A fratricidal four-year war (1861–65) between the federal government of the United States and 11 Southern states that asserted their right to secede from the Union. | | | Extensive collection of links to information on the four-year war (1861—65) between the federal government of the United States and eleven Southern states. | | | The slave states had long been a separate section economically. |
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| | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| | The American Anti-Slavery Society proceeded to elect Abigail Kelly Foster (1810?-1887) to its business committee and named three women delegates (Foster, Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)) as delegates to a World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. | | | Moderates, including Arthur and Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), two wealthy antislavery philanthropists, withdrew from organization and formed the American and Foreign Antislavery Society. | | | At the 1840 annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York, abolitionists split partly over the question of whether women abolitionists could participate in the leadership of the antislavery organization. |
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| | African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 1) |
| | Insisting that emancipation alone would not solve the problems of people of color, Benezet opened schools to prepare them for more productive lives. | | | Quaker petitions on behalf of the emancipation of African Americans flowed into colonial legislatures and later to the United States Congress. | | | The American Anti-slavery Society elected officers and adopted a constitution and declaration. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD |
| | In 1840, after Garrison's opponents failed to purge him and his supporters from the American Anti-Slavery Society, they seceded to form their own organizations, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty party. | | | Garrison was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. | | | A supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party, Garrison parted company during the war with many of his colleagues, led by Wendell Phillips, who insisted that true emancipation of the slave required legal guarantees of suffrage and full civil rights. |
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| | John G. Whittier, American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversaries, 1863, 1883 |
| | I need not say how gladly I would be with you at the semi-centennial of the American Anti-slavery Society. | | | Occasion: John G. Whittier, one of the founding members of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, was unable to participate in the anniversary celebrations of the Society. | | | Sectional prejudices are subsiding, the bitterness of the civil war is slowly passing away. |
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| | The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society eBook by BookRags |
| | The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society eBook by BookRags | | | The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society | | | If he owes any one a grudge, or wishes to enjoy the fiendish pleasure of whipping a little, (for some overseers really delight in it,) they have only to tell a falsehood relative to the weight of their basket; they can then have a pretext |
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| | Tappan, Arthur on Encyclopedia.com |
| | He made a fortune in the dry-goods business in New York City and with his brother and partner Lewis Tappan gave generously of his time and money to various causes, especially to the antislavery movement. | | | He contributed to the establishment of Kenyon and Oberlin colleges in Ohio, was elected (1833) the first president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and, after splitting with William Lloyd Garrison, helped organize (1840) and became president of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. | | | Publication: The American Indian Quarterly; Author: Minges, Patrick ; Source: MAGAZINES |
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| | UCF English Department: Faculty and Staff Information |
| | "The Role of Native American Oratory in Republican Discourses and Periodicals of the Early Revolutionary Era, 1741-1775." Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. | | | He is currently completing a book-length manuscript for Kent State University Press on the historical writings and imagination of Charles Brockden Brown relative to the cultural politics of the late 1790s and early 1800s. | | | Click the link to view other faculty members involved in the same area. |
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