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But this anti-slavery impulse that does take hold
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in the American North went through various stages.
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That first stage is the 1830s into the 1840s,
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which is largely a time of great expansion
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in abolitionist organizations, in societies, in newspapers.
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It tends to be a decade, decade and a half,
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driven largely by a kind of Garrisonian--
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and I outlined the various tenets of Garrisonianism--
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but it tended to be a kind of Garrisonian moral suasion.
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This was an era
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in which most abolitionists were largely devoted to
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this idea of reforming or changing the heart of the American people.