At the same time, he
was increasingly aware of the depth of racial prejudice of
Northern whites, and he knew that there was a long struggle
ahead to gain political, social, and economic freedom.
White Liberals
In 1832 William Lloyd Garrison and eleven other whites
founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society which, besides
working for the abolition of slavery, fought for the rights of
freedmen. Garrison soon became the fiery and controversial
leader of the abolitionist movement and the editor of "The
Liberator". The movement included men like Wendell Phillips,
Arthur and Lewis Tappan, Theodore Dwight Weld, Gerrit Smith,
James Birney, and many others. They condemned the American
Colonization Society for sharing the unchristian prejudices of
the slaveholders. Although the Northern states had abolished
slavery, most whites believed that it was not their business to
interfere with the domestic affairs of the Southern states. They
also held that freedmen in the North must be kept in their place, and
they viewed the abolitionists as a dangerous and radical
minority.
The abolition movement itself was weakened by internal
fragmentation.
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