Title
The Abolitionist: or Record of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
Garrison and Knapp
Date
January 1833
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
William Lloyd Garrison co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. The Abolitionist declared itself “exclusively devoted to subjects connected with the rights and happiness of the colored people.” Southern slave states tried to squelch the publications. Angry mobs publicly burned them. A grand jury in Tuscaloosa demanded the publishing agent’s extradition for trial. The AASS eventually became the “single largest and most influential organization against slavery up to the end of the Civil War.”