USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Massachusetts in 1805, William Lloyd Garrison was an untiring reformer who worked for women’s right to vote, civil rights, and prohibition, but he is best know for his “fierce opposition to slavery.” He led the moral crusade for abolition of slavery in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -He published The Liberator every week for thirty-five years. He gave speeches and helped found antislavery societies. He worked with, inspired (and on occasion offended) activists such as Charles Lenox Remond, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, Wendell Phillips, and others.

Detailed explanation-3: -For more than three decades, from the first issue of his weekly paper in 1831, until after the end of the Civil War in 1865 when the last issue was published, Garrison spoke out eloquently and passionately against slavery and for the rights of America’s black inhabitants.