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American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
A major abolitionist organization of the 1840s, this society broke from the American Anti-Slavery Society and focused squarely on ending slavery. Its publications and reports capture the arguments, strategies, and internal tensions of the antislavery movement before the Civil War.
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Facts for the People of the Free States
by American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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Founded in 1840, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist organization formed after a split in the broader antislavery movement. It drew support from figures including Arthur and Lewis Tappan and put its energy into immediate abolition, while taking a more conservative position than some other reform groups of the time.
The society emerged from disagreements over questions that went beyond slavery itself, especially the role of women in antislavery leadership and the relationship between abolitionism, church life, and politics. Because of that, its history offers a revealing window into how reform movements can be united by a cause yet divided over strategy and principle.
For readers today, works published by the society are valuable not just as antislavery documents, but as firsthand records of debate inside the movement. They help show how abolitionists organized, persuaded supporters, and argued over the best path toward freedom.