LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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organized an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1826.
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advocated the settling of Liberia by freed slaves.
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advocated for educational reform in rural areas of the U.S.
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urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of these BEST describes the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison? Garrison founded The Liberator in 1831, with an anti-slavery message. Rather than suggest a gradual elimination of slavery, he urger immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Speaking in Boston’s Park Street Church, Garrison strongly denounced the national sin of slavery. He also called for gradual emancipation of the enslaved and supported the American Colonization Society’s program of shipping free Blacks to their “homeland” of Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lloyd, was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by constitutional amendment in 1865.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: D, He was the founder of the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.