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He spoke out for benevolence to the southern states and to the slaveholders

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In 1850 Smith and Frederick Douglass organized a convention in Casanova to protest passage of the pending Federal Fugitive Slave Bill.

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Much of Smith’s philanthropy concentrated on liberating slaves. He complemented individuals’ efforts to buy freedom. He purchased individuals and families directly from slaveholders

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Gerrit Smith as a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist

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During this meeting a angry crowd came and disrupted this meeting.Smith offered this angry crowd his estate to house the conference and made a powerful speech on behalf of this

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After 3 years of being a Church of Petersboro it was changed to a school called the Evans Academy.

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Gerrit Smith sold this land for $1 to 3,000 slaves.Many of them had escaped to freedom.

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President of the New York Anti-Slavery Society 

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President of the New York Anti-Slavery Society 

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Gerrit Smith was elected 4 times for this position and never took it for granted.Smith believed that slavery has to end even if there is violence or bloodshed