USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He called slavery a national sin and advocated the gradual emancipation of enslaved persons. Garrison then accepted Lundy’s offer to move to Baltimore and take over publication of the antislavery newspaper Genius of Universal Emancipation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Born in Massachusetts in 1805, William Lloyd Garrison was an untiring reformer who worked for women’s right to vote, civil rights, and prohibition, but he is best know for his “fierce opposition to slavery.” He led the moral crusade for abolition of slavery in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -Garrison saw moral persuasion as the only means to end slavery. To him the task was simple: show people how immoral slavery was and they would join in the campaign to end it. He disdained politics, for he saw the political world as an arena of compromise.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.