American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
United States history
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founding by Tappan
- In Arthur Tappan
…created a new organization, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. He advocated trying to achieve abolition through the political process and backed the Liberty Party in the 1840s. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, however, both of the Tappan brothers became more radical. Arthur Tappan openly…
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schism with American Anti-Slavery Society
- In American Anti-Slavery Society
…the Tappan brothers, formed the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which advocated moral suasion and political action and led directly to the birth of the Liberty Party in 1840.
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