LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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abolitionists movement
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women’s suffrage movement
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prison and healthcare reform
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education movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -It came under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, a Boston journalist and social reformer. From the early 1830s until the end of the Civil War in 1865, Garrison was the abolitionists’ most dedicated campaigner. His newspaper, the Liberator, was notorious.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two great abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, once allies, split over the Constitu-tion. Garrison believed it was a pro-slavery document from its inception. Douglass strongly disagreed.
Detailed explanation-4: -He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.