History - The National Anti-Slavery Society
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- The National Anti-Slavery Society
- General Info
- Created in 1833
- By 1838 had 250,000 members
- Members were mainly wealthy and well educated
- Women played a big role as well as freed slaves
- Churned out a mass of literature
- Petitioned congress leading to the 'gag rule' in 1836
- Why did they win support?
- World-wide phenomenon in which British writings played an important role
- Evangelic protestants attacked sin including slavery
- Problems in the North
- Many northerners feared an exodus of freed slaves to the north
- Anti-slavery meetings sometimes broken up by angry mobs
- In 1837 Elijah Lovejoy became the first abolitionist martyrs
- Split over whether to create party or work through existing parties
- Garrison wanted nothing to do with politics
- Their Liberty party won only 7000 votes in 1840
- Conflict over whether there should be a slave revolt or to use moral force
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- Problems in the South
- Slave revolt by Nat Turner in 1831 killed 55 - abolitionists were blamed for this
- Southerners attacked back with slavery being "a positive good"
- Bible seemed to sanction slavery
- Slave owners were more wealthy than most people
- Those suspected of having abolitionists sympathies were abused
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