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William Lloyd Garrison
1805–1879
A fierce voice against slavery, he used the power of print to push the United States toward moral reckoning. His newspaper The Liberator became one of the most influential antislavery publications of the 19th century.
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No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
by William Lloyd Garrison
Thoughts on African Colonization
by William Lloyd Garrison
About the author
Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1805, William Lloyd Garrison grew up with limited means and entered the printing trade while still young. That early work in journalism shaped the direct, urgent style that later made him one of the best-known reformers of his era.
Garrison is most closely associated with The Liberator, the antislavery newspaper he founded in Boston in 1831 and published for decades. He argued for the immediate end of slavery at a time when that position was considered radical, and he also helped lead organized abolitionist work through the American Anti-Slavery Society.
His reform efforts reached beyond abolition alone. He supported women's rights, spoke for nonviolence, and remained a prominent public figure through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. He died in 1879, remembered as a relentless journalist and activist who helped change the national debate.