American Anti-Slavery Society
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Founded | Philadelphia |
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Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Headquarters location | New York, New York, United States |
Founders | William Lloyd Garrison |
Theodore Dwight Weld | |
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ID | 1011580 |
About American Anti-Slavery Society
The American Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was also a freed slave who often spoke at meetings.