ABSTRACT
A major factor in the decision of most abolitionists, regardless of race, to support the AFASS, the AMA, and the Liberty party during the 1840s was that these organizations were more aggressive than the AASS was toward slavery in the South. The great abolitionist postal campaign of the mid-1830s has been portrayed as the peak of northern abolitionist interference in the South [237]. But this is not the case. During the 1840s and 1850s abolitionists became increasingly aggressive in their actions.
