American Anti-Slavery Society

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American Anti-Slavery Society, also known as the AASS (established 1833–disestablished 1870) 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. By 1838, the society had 1,350 local charters with around 250,000 members.
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referencedIn Hudson Family Papers 1825-1865 Sophia Smith Collection
creatorOf Samuel L. Gouverneur correspondence, 1822-1851. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887. Papers, 1836-1891. Gadsden Public Library
referencedIn Hudson Family Papers MS 332., 1807-1963 Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
referencedIn Dr. Hiram Corson family papers, 1827-1896 Historical Society of Montgomery County
referencedIn Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877. Correspondence, Sept. 16, 1844-1876. Temple University Libraries, Paley Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871,. May Anti-Slavery pamphlet collection, 1773-1934 (bulk 1830-1880). Cornell University Library
referencedIn Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887. Letter, 1839 June 25, New York, to James [Morril?], Boscawen, N.H. Dartmouth College Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel J. May diary, 1860. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel J. May diary, 1867. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873. Papers, 1809-1903, (bulk 1809-1872) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Samuel Joseph May diary, 1861. Cornell University Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel J. May diary, 1869. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Letter, 1837 August 14, [New York], to "My Dear Sisters" [Sarah M. and A.E. Grimké] / Jn. G Whittier. Haverford College Library
referencedIn T. Butler King Papers,  , 1773-1868, 2003, (bulk 1835-1868) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
referencedIn Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf American Anti-Slavery Society. American Anti-Slavery Society records, 1833-1840. Library of Congress
referencedIn James G. Birney papers 1816-1884 1820-1856 Birney, James G. papers William L. Clements Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel Joseph May diary, 1865. Cornell University Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel Joseph May diary, 1868. Cornell University Library
creatorOf Garrison, James H. Maloney collection of McKim-Garrison family papers, ca. 1814-1940. New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Collection, 1788-1890 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Pennypacker, E. F. (Elijah Funk), 1804-1888. Letters, 1839-1861. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
referencedIn Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873. Lewis Tappan papers, 1809-1903 (inclusive), [microform]. Yale University Library
referencedIn Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. ALsS, 1881-1883, Danvers, [MA]. Haverford College Library
referencedIn Hutchins Library. Anti-slavery Collection 1769-1865. Berea College, Hutchins Library
referencedIn Robinson, Marius Racine, 1806-1878. Papers, 1830-1837 / Marius Racine Robinson. Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library
referencedIn Burleigh, Charles Calistus, 1810-1878. Papers, 1844-1859. Historical Society of Pennsylvania
referencedIn Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906. Susan B. Anthony papers, 1846-1934 (bulk 1846-1906). Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Hudson family. Hudson family papers, 1807-1963. University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
referencedIn Harmonic Society of Newark (Newark, N.J.). Record book, 1830-1838 (bulk 1830). New Jersey Historical Society Library
referencedIn Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873. Papers, 1809-1903, (bulk 1809-1872) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Weld-Grimké family papers 1740-1930 1825-1893 Weld-Grimké family papers William L. Clements Library
referencedIn Codding, Ichabod, 1810-1866. Family papers, 1807-1937 (bulk 1836-1883) Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
referencedIn Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887. Papers, 1837-1893. American Antiquarian Society
referencedIn Codding, Ichabod, 1810-1866. Family papers [microform], 1807-1937 (bulk 1836-1883) Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
referencedIn Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace), 1813-1838. Papers, 1831-1838. New Hampshire Historical Society Library
referencedIn Mott Manuscripts Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
referencedIn Drew, Thomas Bradford, 1834-1898. Diaries, 1849-1898. Massachusetts Historical Society
referencedIn Monroe, James, 1821-1898. Papers 1819-1898. Oberlin College Library
referencedIn Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887. Papers, 1836-1891. Gadsden Public Library
referencedIn Elizur Wright Papers, 1793-1935, (bulk 1830-1885) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Jenkyn, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1794?-1858. Letter, 1833. New-York Historical Society
referencedIn Ward, Prudence, 1795-1874. Correspondence of Prudence Ward and Anne J. Ward, 1839-1906. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
referencedIn Weld family. Weld-Grimké family papers, 1740-1930, bulk 1825-1893. William L. Clements Library
referencedIn Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959 Andover-Harvard Theological Library
referencedIn Samuel Joseph May Diary, 1866. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857. Letter : American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838 July 4. Harold B. Lee Library
referencedIn Samuel L. Gouverneur correspondence, 1822-1851 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Grew family. Grew Family Papers, 1767-1904; bulk=1815-1866. Peabody Essex Museum
referencedIn Goodell, William, 1792-1878. The William Goodell Family Papers 1780-1892 1820-1878 Berea College, Hutchins Library
referencedIn William L. Clements Library. James G. Birney papers, 1816-1884, bulk 1820-1856. William L. Clements Library
creatorOf Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888. Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886. New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Curtiss, Homer, 1800-1880. Papers, 1836-1863. Connecticut Historical Society
referencedIn Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895. Abolitionist Collection, 1834-1884. William & Mary Libraries
referencedIn Lutz, Alma,. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881) Houghton Library
referencedIn May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel Joseph May diary, 1859. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Jackson, Francis, 1789-1861. At a full meeting of some of the warmest advocates of the Anti-Slavery cause in Boston: Letter from Francis Jackson et al., 1843 January 9. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
referencedIn Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. William Lloyd Garrison papers, 1854-1879. Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library
creatorOf Ada. Scrapbook on slavery, [183-?]. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906. Papers, 1846-1934 (bulk 1846-1906) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Neall, Daniel, 1817-1894. Papers, 1834-1977, bulk 1834-1884. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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