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In this anti-abolitionist cartoon, Martin Van Buren struggles to span the gap dividing former Whig, Democratic, and Liberty members of the Free Soil Party. Garrisonian and Anti-Garrisonian abolitionists shared the goal of immediate, unconditional, and universal emancipation for all enslaved people in the United States.
A more pragmatic group of abolitionists, such as Theodore Weld and Arthur Tappan, wanted immediate action, but were willing to support a program of gradual emancipation, with a long intermediate stage. "Anti-slavery men", such as John Quincy Adams, did not call slavery a sin. They called it an evil feature of society as a whole.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society was invited to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England, to meet and network with other abolitionists of the time. [21] Additionally, it served to strengthen each group's commitment to racial equality.
James G. Birney was the two-time presidential nominee of the Liberty Party, a forerunner of the Free Soil Party.. Though William Lloyd Garrison and most other abolitionists of the 1830s had generally shunned the political system, a small group of abolitionists founded the Liberty Party in 1840.
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1840) was an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century."During its brief history ... it orchestrated three national women's conventions, organized a multistate petition campaign, sued southerners who brought slaves into Boston, and sponsored elaborate, profitable fundraisers."
Over 200 of the official delegates were British. The next largest group was the Americans, with around 50 delegates. Only small numbers of delegates from other nations attended. [2] Benjamin Robert Haydon painted The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, a year after the event [6] that today is in the National Portrait Gallery. This very large ...
Joel W. Lewis was the chairman in 1840. [10] The New England Anti-Slavery Society held conventions in: Boston, Massachusetts, May 30, 31 and June 1 and 2, 1837; The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society held conventions in: Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1840 [11] Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1841
From 1840–1842, Collins served as the General Agent and Vice President of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (MASS, founded 1835), a Boston branch of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He helped to mentor Frederick Douglass as Douglass began to become a speaker on the abolitionist circuit.