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Article: Abolitionists who led the way.(including Arthur and Lewis Tappan, Catherine Mott and Lucretia Mott)(Brief Article)
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- Cobblestone
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- February 1, 2003
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Several prominent figures were involved in establishing the American Anti-Slavery Society. These included merchant brothers Arthur and Lewis Tappan. Arthur became the first president of the society in 1833, and eventually the brothers became financial supporters of the Underground Railroad. Theodore Weld, Samuel Eli Cornish, Robert Purvis, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass also were important early members of the society.
The antislavery movement also attracted white women. Catherine Coffin, wife of Levi Coffin (see the article on page 19), was actively involved. Quaker Lucretia Mott initially was refused admittance to an 1840 antislavery conference in ...