Angelina Grimké, a noted female abolitionist, also joined the organization.
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Prominent individuals included Grace and Sarah Douglass, Hetty Reckless, and Charlotte Forten and her daughters, Harriet, Sarah, and Margaretta Forten.
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It was founded by eighteen women, including Margaretta Forten, her mother Charlotte, and Margaretta's sisters Sarah and Harriet Louisa.
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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.
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President Andrew Jackson swept aside the states' rights arguments and threatened to use the army to enforce federal laws.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Hall was one of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery Society.
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.