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]
Who started an anti-slavery newspaper known as “The Liberator”?
A
William Lloyd Garrison
B
Angelina Grimke
C
Frederick Douglass
D
John Brown
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp. Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").

Detailed explanation-2: -From 1831 to 1865, William Lloyd Garrison, a vocal white abolitionist, edited a weekly newspaper, titled The Liberator, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Contact with Black Americans in Boston and Baltimore led Garrison to reject gradualism and colonization. In 1831, back in Boston with his new newspaper The Liberator, Garrison publicly committed himself to Black abolitionists’ demands for an immediate uncompensated end to slavery and for political and social equality.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publication of The Liberator, the premier antislavery newspaper in Boston and the United States.

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