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Preferred term
American Anti-Slavery Society
Definition
- The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was the first national antislavery society in the United States of America. Immediatists, those who supported the immediate emancipation of enslaved people without compensation to slaveholders, established the society in Philadelphia in December 1833. [Source: Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia; American Anti-Slavery Society]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/American_Anti-Slavery_Society
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