The Abolitionist Movement's goal was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by religions fervor of the Second Great Awakening. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s. The movement did not coalesce into a militant crusade until the 1830s. By stressing the moral imperative to end sinful practices and each person's responsibility to uphold God's will in society.
In early 1831, Garrison, in Boston, began publishing his famous newspaper, the Liberator, supported largely by free African-Americans, who always played a major role in the movement. In December 1833, the Tappans, Garrison, and sixty other delegates of both races and genders met in Philadelphia to found the American Anti-Slavery Society, which denounced slavery as a sin that nonviolence, and condemned racial prejudice.
By 1835, the society had received substantial moral and financial support from African-American communities in the North and had established hundreds of branches throughout the free states, flooding the North with antislavery literature, agents, and petitions demanding that Congress end all federal support for slavery. These activities provoked widespread hostile responses from North and South, most notably violent mobs, the burning or mailbags containing abolitionist literature , and the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of a gag rule that banned consideration of antislavery petitions.
In early 1831, Garrison, in Boston, began publishing his famous newspaper, the Liberator, supported largely by free African-Americans, who always played a major role in the movement. In December 1833, the Tappans, Garrison, and sixty other delegates of both races and genders met in Philadelphia to found the American Anti-Slavery Society, which denounced slavery as a sin that nonviolence, and condemned racial prejudice.
By 1835, the society had received substantial moral and financial support from African-American communities in the North and had established hundreds of branches throughout the free states, flooding the North with antislavery literature, agents, and petitions demanding that Congress end all federal support for slavery. These activities provoked widespread hostile responses from North and South, most notably violent mobs, the burning or mailbags containing abolitionist literature , and the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of a gag rule that banned consideration of antislavery petitions.