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William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
20 de may. de 2024 · William Lloyd Garrison, American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. He also championed temperance, women’s rights, and pacifism. Learn more about Garrison’s life and career.
William Lloyd Garrison ( Newburyport, Massachusetts, 12 de diciembre de 1805 – Nueva York; 24 de mayo de 1879) fue un prominente abolicionista, periodista y reformador social estadounidense. Es más conocido por ser el editor del periódico abolicionista radical The Liberator, y como uno de los fundadores de la Sociedad Antiesclavista Estadounidense.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Learn about the life and career of William Lloyd Garrison, a prominent abolitionist journalist and activist who founded The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Discover how he opposed slavery, the Constitution, and the Union, and how he influenced the Civil War and emancipation.
William Lloyd Garrison lived long enough to see the Union come apart under the weight of slavery. He survived to see Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. Thirty-four years after first publishing The Liberator, Garrison saw the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution go into effect, banning slavery forever.
An avowed Unitarian, Garrison believed slavery to be in direct moral conflict with Scripture; America could only be pure if it was finally cleansed of slavery.
Lincoln and the Abolitionists. History records Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, yet ardent abolitionists of his day such as William Lloyd Garrison viewed him with deep suspicion. That the 16th president eventually achieved the abolitionists' most cherished dream, says biographer.
