Abolitionists’ founding constitution centered on elevating Black people rather than dismantling policy

Evidence

The impracticable strategy of uplift suasion was written into the AASS constitution. “This Society shall aim to elevate the character and conditions of the people of color, by encouraging their intellectual, moral and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 468

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete instance of what ‘uplift suasion’ — assimilationist strategy — looked like as organizational doctrine.