Anti-Slavery Society Explained

Anti-Slavery Society was a name used by various abolitionist groups including:

United Kingdom

• Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787–1807?), also referred to as the Abolition Society
• Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838), full name Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
• Anti-Slavery International (1839–present), founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

United States

• American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1870)
• Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1833)
• The Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1837)
• Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1833)
• Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835)
• Ladies’ New York City Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835)
• Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835)
• Ohio Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835)
• Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women (founded 1837)
• New York State Anti-Slavery Society, first meeting held in Utica October 19, 1836 (History of slavery in New York (state))
• Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1838)
• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1840)
• Neel's [Neil's] Creek Anti-Slavery Society in Indiana with members including Lyman Hoyt

Others

• Belgian Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1888)

See also

• • Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, also known as the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society
• World Anti-Slavery Convention (1840)