LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Elihu Embree
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Frederick Douglass
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Dorothea Dix
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -And on January 1, 1831, he published the first issue of his own anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator. In speaking engagements and through the Liberator and other publications, Garrison advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves.
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 first issue of The Liberator, dated 1 January 1831, contains an editorial by its founder William Lloyd Garrison.
Detailed explanation-5: -Garrison saw moral persuasion as the only means to end slavery. To him the task was simple: show people how immoral slavery was and they would join in the campaign to end it. He disdained politics, for he saw the political world as an arena of compromise.