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Who were the founders of the American Antislavery Society?

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The Tappan brothers and William Lloyd Garrison , who began publishing an abolitionist journal, The Liberator, in 1831, were the principal organizers in Dec., 1833, at Philadelphia, of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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