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Events on Friday 6 December 1833 1
1833American Anti-Slavery Society foundedAbolitionists organize a national movement in PhiladelphiaDelegates including William Lloyd Garison met in Philadelphia from 4 to 6 December 1833 to found the American Anti-Slavery Society, demanding immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. The society became a leading vehicle for abolitionist organizing and publishing in the decades before the Civil War. It drew members from across the northern states.