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Garrison, William Lloyd
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Garrison, William Lloyd
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 2430 Includes: Banner of Immediate Abolition | Toward a Garrisonian Vision | “No Union with Slaveholders” | Bibliography(b. 10 December 1805; d. 24 May 1879),
antislavery activist and editor. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to a family of modest means. After an apprenticeship with a local printer, he set out to found his own newspaper and became one of the nation's most vocal moral reformers. Garrison tried his hand at editing newspapers in Massachusetts and Vermont, but his radical critique of electoral politics and his air of moral superiority were unpopular with readers. After a series of failed ventures, in 1829 he accepted an offer to work on a Baltimore-based antislavery newspaper, theGenius of Universal Emancipation, edited by Benjamin Lundy. In 1830Garrison drew national notoriety when he was convicted of libel for an editorial denouncing a wealthy merchant's participation in the slave trade. He refused ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 671 Includes: Bibliography1805–1879
White American founder of influential abolitionist newspaper The Liberator. William Lloyd Garrison was born and raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where at the age of fourteen he was indentured to the owner of the Newburyport Herald. During his indenture, Garrison became an expert printer and grew sympathetic to the struggles of oppressed people. He published articles in the Herald and other newspapers either anonymously or under the pseudonym Aristides. In these articles he tried to arouse Northerners from their apathy toward slavery in the South.In 1829 Garrison entered into a partnership with fellow abolitionist Benjamin Lundy to publish Genius of Universal Emancipation, a monthly journal based in Baltimore, Maryland. Lundy believed in freeing slaves gradually, and Garrison at first shared ...
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Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 428(1805–1879), abolitionist. Born in poverty in Newburyport, Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison rose to international prominence by demanding the immediate abolition of American slavery and insisting that all persons enjoy equal rights. Reflecting his mother's piety and willpower, Garrison first embraced the religious imperative of “immediate emancipation” in 1830. He launched his antislavery newspaper The Liberator in Boston a year later, and in 1833 was a principal founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). For the next three decades, Garrison remained the nation's most visible and radical abolitionist. He urged churches, political parties, and the government itself to sever all ties with the South and its unchristian labor system. His fiery language, in speeches and in The Liberator ...
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