What Can Be Done?
Black New York clergymen helped lead the campaign for equality. They organized annual political conventions, created their own newspapers, and formed literary and charitable organizations. Along with white backers like William Lloyd Garrison of Boston and Arthur and Lewis Tappan of New York, black New Yorkers helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. The AA-SS inflamed southern slaveholders when it called for immediate emancipation of the nation's two million slaves.
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