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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women, and during the 1870s became a pr…
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culture · American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879) · editor · social reformer · writer · journalist · abolitionist · also William Lloyd Garrison, William L. Garrison, Garrison
Born 10 December 1805 · Died 24 May 1879 · Q360155
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2026· 1 entry
2005· 1 entry
Garrison was inducted into the National Abolition Hall of Fame, in Peterboro, New York
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1904· 1 entry
Frequently cited Garrison and his works in his non-fiction texts like The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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1890· 1 entry
“Why I Am a Social Revolutionist”
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1879· 3 entries
Garrison lost consciousness and died just before midnight
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Died 1879-05-24.
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“It is an abuse of language to talk of the slavery of wages... We cannot see that it is wrong to give or receive wages.”
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1877· 1 entry
Where he met with George Thompson and other longtime friends from the British abolitionist movement
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1876· 1 entry
After a severe cold worsened into pneumonia
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1874· 1 entry
Some Republicans suggested Garrison as a possible successor to his Senate seat; Garrison declined on grounds of his moral opposition to taking office
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1873· 1 entry
Healed his long estrangements from Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips, affectionately reuniting with them on the platform at an AWSA rally organized by Abby Kelly Foster and Lucy Stone on the one-hundredth annive
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1870· 1 entry
Became an associate editor of the women's suffrage newspaper, the Woman's Journal, along with Mary Livermore, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lucy Stone, and Henry B
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1863· 1 entry
And was increasingly confined to the house
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1856· 1 entry
By a 14-year-old Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
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1855· 1 entry
His eight-year alliance with Frederick Douglass disintegrated when Douglass converted to classical liberal legal theorist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner's view (dominant among political abolitionists) that the Constit
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1854· 3 entries
Publicly burned a copy of the Constitution, condemning it as "a Covenant with Death, an Agreement with Hell", referring to the three-fifths compromise that had written slavery into the Constitution
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“No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery”
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“immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves”
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1849· 1 entry
Garrison became involved in one of Boston's most notable trials of the time
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1845· 1 entry
When Garrison published a eulogy for his former partner and friend, he revealed that Knapp "was led by adversity and business mismanagement, to put the cup of intoxication to his lips", forcing the co-authors to part
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1840· 2 entries
Garrison's promotion of woman's rights within the anti-slavery movement was one of the issues that caused some abolitionists, including New York brothers Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan, to leave the American Anti-Slavery
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Formed the Liberty Party, and nominated James G
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1837· 2 entries
“the rights of woman to their utmost extent”
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Women abolitionists from seven states convened in New York to expand their petitioning efforts and repudiate the social mores that proscribed their participation in public affairs
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1835· 2 entries
"an assemblage of fifteen hundred or two thousand highly respectable gentlemen", as they were described in the Boston Commercial Gazette, surrounded the building housing Boston's anti-slavery offices, where Garrison had
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As the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, enabling state societies to form in the other New England states, it remained the hub of anti-slavery agitation throughout the antebellum period
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1834· 2 entries
Garrison married Helen Eliza Benson (1811–1876)
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It had two thousand subscribers, three-fourths of whom were black people
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1832· 1 entry
Organized the New-England Anti-Slavery Society
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1831· 2 entries
And published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865
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Garrison, fully aware of the press as a means to bring about political change, returned to New England, where he co-founded a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with his friend Isaac Knapp
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1829· 1 entry
Garrison began writing for and became co-editor with Benjamin Lundy of the Quaker newspaper Genius of Universal Emancipation, published at that time in Baltimore, Maryland
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1828· 1 entry
Was appointed editor of the National Philanthropist in Boston, Massachusetts, the first American journal to promote legally-mandated temperance
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1826· 1 entry
When he was 20 years old, was a severe repudiation of American Writers by John Neal
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1818· 1 entry
At 13, Garrison began working as an apprentice compositor in a 7-year-long arrangement for the Newburyport Herald
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1805· 2 entries
In Newburyport, Massachusetts, the youngest son of immigrants from the British colony of New Brunswick, in present-day Canada
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Born 1805-12-10.
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