A name less offensive than “Anti-Slavery”

A long letter, dated March 23, from Andover Seminary, addressed to Garrison, and signed “Quisquis”, includes: 

“Abolitionists were often such questions as these: ‘Why can you not agree to form a Society in which ALL can unite?’  What is the necessity to having it an auxiliary
to the N.E. Anti-Slavery Society, or to any other existing institution?   Why not call it the African Friends Society, or the Emancipation Society, or by some other name less offensive than Anti-Slavery?’”   Then the writer goes on to suggest that perhaps some , who are good abolitionists, do not like the name “Anti-Slavery” because in reality that  they do not want to identify with “Garrison and his imprudencies”.

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