USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

MANIFEST DESTINY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following abolitionist was the edition of The Liberator in which he preached immediate ending of slavery.
A
Horace Mann
B
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C
Henry Clay
D
Frederick Douglas
E
William Lloyd Garrison
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Lloyd Garrison: A very influential early abolitionist, Garrison started a publication called The Liberator, which supported the immediate freeing of all enslaved men and women.

Detailed explanation-2: -In speaking engagements and through the Liberator and other publications, Garrison advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -He published The Liberator every week for thirty-five years. He gave speeches and helped found antislavery societies. He worked with, inspired (and on occasion offended) activists such as Charles Lenox Remond, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, Wendell Phillips, and others.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publication of The Liberator, the premier antislavery newspaper in Boston and the United States.

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