jun 13, 1817 - Antislavery Movement
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- American Colonization Society: attempted to send back African Americans back to Africa, not really successful
- American Antislavery Society: William Lloyd Garrison began publication of The Liberator, radical civil rights movement, , no Union with slaveholders
- Liberty Party: due to Garrison’s radicalism, more moderate ones emerged, this group attempted achieve black people’s rights through political and legal means
- Black Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, David Ruggles, Sojourner Truth, and William Still, more moderate
- Violent Abolitionism David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet, Nat Turner revolted against slaveholders, killed many people
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