USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which key Abolitionist figure created the Liberator and set up the Anti-Slavery Society?
A
William Lloyd Garrison
B
Frederick Douglass
C
Sojourner Truth
D
Nat Turner
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts founded the newspaper The Liberator and in the following year he set up the New England Anti-Slavery Society.

Detailed explanation-2: -American Anti-Slavery Society, (1833–70), promoter, with its state and local auxiliaries, of the cause of immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. As the main activist arm of the Abolition Movement (see abolitionism), the society was founded in 1833 under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -From 1831 to 1865, William Lloyd Garrison, a vocal white abolitionist, edited a weekly newspaper, titled The Liberator, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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