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4 unusual facts about American Anti-Slavery Society


American Anti-Slavery Society

President Andrew Jackson swept aside the states' rights arguments and threatened to use the army to enforce federal laws.

Agitation increased with the publication of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis that same year.

Peter Williams, Jr.

That same year he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and was selected as one of the African-American leaders on the executive board of the interracial group.

In 1833 he founded the Phoenix Society, a mutual aid society for African Americans; that year he was also elected to the executive board of the interracial American Anti-Slavery Society.


Félix Pita Rodríguez

An active communist, Rodriguez helped to found the Ibero-American Anti-Fascist Committee during the Spanish Civil War.

Frito Bandito

Pressure from the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee and others prompted an update to the character; his gold tooth and stubble were eliminated and his hair combed.

Gamaliel Bradford

Gamaliel Bradford (banker), American banker from Boston who helped organize the American Anti-Imperialist League

Insular Cases

The cases were in essence the court's response to a major issue of the 1900 presidential election and the American Anti-Imperialist League, summarized by the phrase "Does the Constitution follow the flag?"

Iranian Anti-Vivisection Association

IAVA is now working in partnership with the International Network for Humane Education (InterNICHE) and is also supported by other organizations such as American Anti-Vivisection Society's educational branch (Animalearn) and International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals (IAAPEA) and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

National Anti-Slavery Standard

The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child.

Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

Angelina Grimké, a noted female abolitionist, also joined the organization.

Prominent individuals included Grace and Sarah Douglass, Hetty Reckless, and Charlotte Forten and her daughters, Harriet, Sarah, and Margaretta Forten.

It was founded by eighteen women, including Margaretta Forten, her mother Charlotte, and Margaretta's sisters Sarah and Harriet Louisa.

Margaretta Forten was a co-founder of the Society and often served as recording secretary or treasurer, as well as helping to draw up its organizational charter and serving on its educational committee.

Robert Bernard Hall

Hall was one of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery Society.

Samuel W. Rowse

Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.


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Howard Athenaeum

Sarah Parker Remond, a medical doctor, anti-slavery activist and lecturer with the American Anti-Slavery Society, had bought a ticket through the mail for the Donizetti opera, Don Pasquale, but, upon arriving, refused to sit in a segregated section for the show.