More people in New England opposed slavery than anywhere else, however only a tiny proportion were ever actively opposed to slavery.
The 1830s and 1840s in New England are the main topics of the following papers. They describe the genesis of the abolitionist movement. The vast majority of Americans who joined the fight against slavery in the 1830s were from the North's rural areas and small towns, and they typically came from profoundly devout, reform-minded families. In 1831, Massachusetts printer and editor William Lloyd Garrison started publishing The Liberator, which would become the main outlet for radical and militant abolitionism in New England.
The New England Anti-Slavery Society was founded the next year by him and his colleagues in an effort to secure the quick abolition of slavery. In order to bring abolitionists from the West, New York, and New England together, the American Anti-Slavery Society was established in 1838.
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