> CHRONOLOGY

1817

  • American Colonization Society founded.

1826

  • American Temperance Society founded.

1829

  • David Walker publishes An Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

1830–1831

  • Charles Grandison Finney preaches in Rochester, New York.

1831

  • William Lloyd Garrison starts Liberator.

1832

  • New England Anti-Slavery Society founded.

1833

  • New York and Philadelphia antislavery societies founded.

  • New York Female Moral Reform Society founded.

1836

  • American Temperance Union founded.