USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
William Lloyd Garrison was the founder of which antislavery newspaper?
A
The Examiner
B
The Liberator
C
The New York Times
D
The Independence Gazette
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Liberator (1831-1865) was the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil War. It was published and edited in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison, a leading white abolitionist and founder of the influential American Anti-Slavery Society .

Detailed explanation-2: -From 1831 to 1865, William Lloyd Garrison, a vocal white abolitionist, edited a weekly newspaper, titled The Liberator, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publication of The Liberator, the premier antislavery newspaper in Boston and the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Contact with Black Americans in Boston and Baltimore led Garrison to reject gradualism and colonization. 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-5: -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.

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