LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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Wrote the Liberator newspaper, and worked for emancipation of all enslaved African-Americans
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Wrote the North Star newspaper, and worked for rights for African Americans and women.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Over the three decades of its publication, The Liberator denounced all people and acts that would prolong slavery including the United States Constitution. Garrison’s condemnation of the Constitution was an incredibly controversial and eventually led to a split with Frederick Douglass.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Lloyd Garrison, (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.-died May 24, 1879, New York, New York), American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -From 1831 to 1865, William Lloyd Garrison, a vocal white abolitionist, edited a weekly newspaper, titled The Liberator, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-4: -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").