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...

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 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 and his tendency to offer caustic, unsparing, and...

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...