William Lloyd Garrison: References & Edit History
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The standard biography is Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children, 4 vol. (1885–89). Still useful are two contemporary accounts: Oliver Johnson, William Lloyd Garrison and His Times (1879); and Samuel J. May, Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict (1869). John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison (1913), is useful as well. Later assessments include Russell B. Nye, William Lloyd Garrison and the Humanitarian Reformers (1955); Walter Merrill, Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison (1963); John L. Thomas, The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison (1963); James Brewer Stewart, William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation (1992); Henry Mayer, All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998, reprinted 2008); James Brewer Stewart (ed.), William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory (2008); and Brian Allen Santana, William Lloyd Garrison and American Abolition in Literature and Memory (2016).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | May 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - William Lloyd Garrison. | May 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Toronto Metropolitan University Pressbooks - The Underground Railroad - William Lloyd Garrison. | Jan 31, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Florida State College at Jacksonville Pressbooks - African American History and Culture - William Lloyd Garrison. | Nov 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American History Central - William Lloyd Garrison, Leader of the Abolition Movement. | Aug 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - The Agitator. | Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Essential Civil War Curriculum - William Lloyd Garrison. | Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum - William Lloyd Garrison. | Apr 03, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - William Lloyd Garrison. | Apr 03, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Dec 23, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hilbert College - Social Justice Activists - William Lloyd Garrison. | Dec 20, 2020 | ||
| Added the date of the first issue of The Liberator. | Aug 24, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children". | Jan 25, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - A True Friend of Early Black America, William Lloyd Garrison. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Famous People - Biography of William Lloyd Garrison. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Massachusetts Historical Society - William Lloyd Garrison Papers. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Birthdate changed from "December 10/12" to "December 10," and other changes made. | Jul 08, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised. | Jul 08, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - William Lloyd Garrison, the great emancipator. | Jan 23, 2013 | ||
| Added URL to topic: Fact Monster - Western United States. | Aug 17, 2009 | ||
| Added URL to topic: Fact Monster - Eastern United States. | Aug 17, 2009 | ||
| Added URL to topic: Fact Monster - History of the United States. | Aug 11, 2009 | ||
| Added URL to topic: Fact Monster - United States. | Aug 10, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ohio History Central - William L. Garrison. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of William Lloyd Garrison. | Jun 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Africans in America - Biography of William Lloyd Garrison. | May 18, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 06, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |