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 Newburyport, Mass. His father deserted the family in...

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) is remembered as the foremost journalist of the...

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 felt that with chattel slavery dead, the Liberator's...

William Lloyd Garrison. . United States 1831 Seeing slavery as an abomination to God and determined to force its immediate end in the United States, William Lloyd Garrison founded the nation's first militant...

William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts and was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The...

All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery By Henry Mayer New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 707. $32.50, cloth; $18.95, paper. No one attacked the black slavery of the southern states with greater vehemence than a...

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery By Henry Mayer St. Martin's Press, 707 pages, $32.50 No one attacked the black slavery of the South with greater vehemence than a group of young, radical abolitionists who burst upon...

A defining moment had arrived for young Frederick Douglass.Before he would go on to fight for slavery's abolition and for human rights with his eloquent words, he was hired out at 15 to Edward Covey, a local Maryland farmer.Covey had a reputation for breaking the...

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 writing and speeches as principal sources.

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 constitutional reform that occurred in the United States during the 1830s.

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.

Provides a biography of American William Lloyd Garrison. Describes his role as one of the leading abolitionists of his day. Describes the relationship between Garrison and Frederick Douglas.