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LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

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Who is described by the following statementsWent to prison for calling a slave trader a robberWrote an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator to end slavery everywhereUsed The Liberator to bring attention to political events and the plight of slavesArgued for a complete and immediate end to slavery, with no compromises
A
Harriet Tubman
B
Frederick Douglass
C
Elihu Embree
D
William Lloyd Garrison
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -From 1831 to 1865, William Lloyd Garrison, a vocal white abolitionist, edited a weekly newspaper, titled The Liberator, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -It was published and edited in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison, a leading white abolitionist and founder of the influential American Anti-Slavery Society. Over the three decades of its publication, The Liberator denounced all people and acts that would prolong slavery including the United States Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.

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