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The American Anti-Slavery Society And The Declaration Of Sentiments And Resolution

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Broken Chains for Equality One person can achieve some dreams but a group of people united with the same ideologies and inspirations can change the history of a society. Abolitionists and wealthy women joined forces to expand human rights and freedom among those did not have power to change a role in the society, which lead them to launch two important movements, the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution, a Women’s Rights resolution, which changed the history of the United States in 1830 to 1860s.
First, William Lloyd Garrison started to advocate the abolitionist movement in his own newspaper The Liberator. In 1833, he was one of the members that started The American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston and him already was a believer of free labor. Also, Theodore Weld started to advocate the abolitionist movement. With his own newspaper the North Star, Frederick Douglass after escape from his owner in Maryland, became a powerful orator about slavery. Eventually, these three abolitionists gave a new perspective to the movement. Thus, after the Fugitive Slave Act passed by the Congress, Harriet B. Stowe wrote in Tom’s Cabin, a fiction based on slavery, which influenced the causes of the anti-slavery movement and spread …show more content…

The sisters, Sarah Grimke and Angelina E. Grimke were the first women to participate as agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society defending the rights of the women in New York City. (Durso 2-3). Sarah Grimke wrote Letter on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women and some of them were published on the newspaper The Liberator and Angelina married Theodore D. Weld, an abolitionist. The Grimke sisters and Weld participated in the movement abolitionist and women’ rights through their

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