This Week In Illinois History: Abolitionism Begins In Illinois (Feb. 1, 1833)

from This Week in Illinois History · host Clint Cargile

One hundred and eighty-eight years ago, Illinois’s nascent anti-slavery movement began to pick up steam. On Feb. 1, 1833, eleven men who shared a fierce loathing of America’s peculiar institution banded together and established the Putnam County Anti-Slavery Society, the first anti-slavery society in Illinois, and one of the first in the western United States.

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