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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

William Lloyd Garrison

American editor, writer, and abolitionist
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John L. Thomas
Professor of History, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Author of The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison.
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William Lloyd Garrison (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 24, 1879, New York, New York) was an American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. Garrison was the son of an itinerant seaman who subsequently deserted his family. The son grew up in an atmosphere of declining New England federalism and lively Christian benevolence—twin sources of the abolition...

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