American Anti-Slavery Society included speakers such as the abolitionist lecturer who was born into slavery in what Kentucky county?
American Anti-Slavery Society The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) (1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was also a freed slave who often spoke at meetings. By 1838, the society had 1,350 local charters with around 250,000 members.
Lily Ann Granderson Lily Ann Granderson, born a slave in Virginia in 1816, was a pioneering educator. Lily Ann’s grandmother was a free woman of Native American descent. However, after the death of her grandmother, Lily’s Ann’s mother was sold into slavery at three years of age. Later on in Lily Ann’s life, she was moved to Kentucky and worked as a house slave because of her fair skin. Little was known about Lily Ann’s father. All that is known is that he is a white man that was from one of the First Families of Virginia (FFV). Lily Ann and the master’s family became quite close. The master’s children even taught Lily Ann how to read and write, a common method used by enslaved people to gain literacy, following her successful attempts to persuade them.