... united to form numerous antislavery societies. These groups sent petitions with thousands of signatures to Congress, held abolition meetings and conferences, boycotted products made with slave labor, printed mountains of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause. Individual abolitionists sometimes advocated violent means for bringing slavery to an end. Although black and white abolitionists often worked together, by the 1840s ... Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia to create a national...

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