William Lloyd Garrison Summary

William Lloyd Garrison. The Library of Congress. Liberator Founded United States 1831 Synopsis Seeing slavery as an abomination to God and determined to force its immediate end in the United St... Read more

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... Read more

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)... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more