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Liberator Founded
United States 1831
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Seeing slavery as an abomination to God and determined to force its immediate end in the United St...
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Biography EssayOn 29 December 1865 William Lloyd Garrison brought out the last issue of the Liberator, the fiery abolitionist newspaper he had founded in 1831. Though his friends urged him to contin...
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William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), American editor, reformer, and antislavery crusader, became the symbol of the age of aggressive abolitionism.William Lloyd Garrison was born on Dec. 10, 1805, in Ne...
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The Principal collections of William Lloyd Garrison's papers are at Boston Public Library, Smith College, and Houghton Library, Harvard University.William Lloyd Garrison (10 December 1805-24 May 1879)...
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On 29 December 1865 William Lloyd Garrison brought out the last issue of the Liberator, the fiery abolitionist newspaper he had founded in 1831. Though his friends urged him to continue the paper, he ...
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William Lloyd Garrison is generally considered to be, more than any other person of his time, the leading figure in the American antislavery movement. Because of his absolute dedication to his cause a...
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In the following excerpt from a speech delivered to the inaugural convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, Tappan praises Garrison as a pioneer of the abolitionist movement and defends...
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In the following excerpt, Zinn addresses Garrison as a political “extremist,” discussing his overall influence on the attitudes of average Americans toward the slavery question in the mi...
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In the following essay, Fredrickson summarizes Garrison's theories of reform, nonviolent resistance, and social progress, while critiquing some of the more radical elements of his political pos...
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In the following excerpt, Kraditor examines Garrison's views on radical social issues of the mid-1800s, such as nonresistance (pacifism) and women's rights.
In the fight over the woman q...
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In the following essay, Merrill encapsulates critical reaction to Garrison from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s and briefly characterizes the content of Garrison's correspondence.
If Ga...
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In the following excerpt, Stewart surveys the broad-based, political radicalism associated with the term “Garrisonism.”
William Lloyd Garrison, without question, served as … [a] f...
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In the following essay, Henry conducts a rhetorical analysis of the American Anti-Slavery Society's “Declaration of Sentiments,” drafted by Garrison, and studies its links to the ...
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In the following essay, Goodman centers on Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization as among the reformer's most critical efforts to educate the American public about race, promote ab...
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In the following essay, Castiglia explores the dynamics of American social reformist discourse as mediated through a scheme of white sympathy and virtuous black suffering, using Garrison's writ...
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In the following excerpt, Wilson offers accolades to Garrison for his singular courage in promoting the anti-slavery cause.
Mr. Garrison's partner in the publication of The Liberator was Mr. Is...
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In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1889, Schouler characterizes Garrison as a fanatical agitator whose radical methods demonstrated a complete lack of regard for constituti...
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In the following excerpt, Rhodes considers Garrison's work in relation to slave uprisings of the 1830s, and presents an assessment of his impact on mid-nineteenth-century American politics.
In ...
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In the following essay, Tolstoy acknowledges Garrison's decisive articulation of “the principle of non-resistance to evil by violence,” which champions rational and moral persuasi...
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In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1913, Chapman describes Garrison's forceful political activism, highlighting the unswerving religious and theoretical principals t...
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In the following excerpt, Nye concentrates on Garrison's religious motivation to combat human evil by eradicating slavery. The critic also stresses exaggerations in the Garrison legend, while a...
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In the following excerpt, Thomas probes the political context of Garrison's religious views, particularly his belief in the Christian doctrine of perfectionism in relation to the debate over co...
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Slavery has always been a controversial and debatable issue in the United States. No one attacked the African-American slavery of the southern states with greater vehemence than a group of young, rad...
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Liberator Founded
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
Critical Essay by Lewis Tappan
"William Lloyd Garrison: the Agitator"
