Note 4 — Chapter III · • Liberalism and the Social Conscience

This was an outgrowth of the anti-slavery movement and emerged from the conservative opposition to women’s appearing on the abolition platform. The reply of the Quakeress, Angelina Grimké, to Elizabeth Beecher’s Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with reference to the Duty of American Females, in 1837, marks the definite beginning of the movement. See Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. II, pp. 133–134.