On January 6, 1832

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On January 6th of 1832, William Lloyd Garrison along with 15 others, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society at the African Meeting House in Boston.


By 1833, Garrison helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society with fellow abolitionists Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan, and Theodore Dwight Weld. This organization sent lecturers across the North to convince whites of slavery's brutality.


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