in addition to publishing "the liberator", garrison spearheaded the organization of a new movement to demand the total abolition of slavery in the united states. by january 1832, he had attracted enough followers to organize the new-england anti-slavery society which, by the following summer, had dozens of affiliates and several thousand members. in december 1833, abolitionists from ten states founded the american anti-slavery society (aas). although the new england society reorganized in 1835 as the massachusetts anti-slavery society, enabling state societies to form in the other new england states, it remained the hub of anti-slavery agitation throughout the antebellum period. many affiliates were organized by women who responded to garrison's appeals for women to take active part in the abolition movement. the largest of these was the boston female anti-slavery society, which raised funds to support "the liberator", publish anti-slavery pamphlets, and conduct anti-slavery petition drives.