University of Alabama Professor Joshua Rothman discussed the early abolitionist movement in the 1830s. He talked about William Lloyd Garrison and the Anti-Slavery Societies at the time.

It wasn’t until the 1830s that slavery finally forced itself onto the national agenda again, with the founding of the thunderingly abolitionist newspaper the Liberator and the establishment, in ...

From 1836 to 1839, the American Anti-Slavery Society published The Slave’s Friend, a juvenile periodical edited by abolitionist Lewis Tappan. Each issue, specially sized to fit small hands, was ...

Northern abolitionist societies stirred Southern passions by mailing tabloids and broadsides denouncing slavery across the Mason-Dixon Line. Southerners countered, landing political punches against ...

During the 1830s, abolitionists used the postal service and publishing in their battle against slavery. This resulted in millions of pamphlets, newsletters, papers and petitions sent through the mail ...