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William Lloyd Garrison
1805–1879
A fiery newspaper editor and reformer, he became one of the loudest American voices calling for the immediate end of slavery. His uncompromising words in The Liberator helped turn abolition into a moral crisis the nation could no longer ignore.
2 Audiobooks
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 began working in print as a young apprentice and grew into one of the best-known reform journalists of the 19th century. He is most closely associated with The Liberator, the antislavery newspaper he founded in Boston in 1831 and published for decades.
Garrison argued that slavery should end at once, without gradual steps, and his blunt, moral style made him admired by supporters and hated by opponents. He also helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and was active in other reform causes, including women's rights, temperance, and pacifism.
Although controversial in his own time, he is now remembered as a central figure in the abolitionist movement. His writing and public campaigning helped shape the national debate over slavery, and his life offers a vivid window into the fierce moral struggles that defined the United States before the Civil War.