William lloyd garrison biography
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was an outspoken abolitionist for most of his life. He started Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, which he published weekly from to Garrison also published articles in support of woman's suffrage.
Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in , the son of a merchant sailing master. However, with the Embargo Act, passed by Congress in , Garrison’s family fell on hard times. In , Garrison worked for a variety of newspapers to help supplement his schooling. Several of his articles were published in the Salem Gazette. Then in , Garrison decided to start his own newspaper, the Newburyport Free Press. Unfortunately this paper failed, so Garrison took a job as the assistant editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, which was published in Baltimore, Maryland. Joining this paper marks the start of Garrison’s abolitionist career. By , he was the co-editor of the paper.
On January 1, , Garrison published the first issues of the Liberator, his own anti-slavery newspaper. Through not only the paper, but speaking engagements as well, Garrison sought the immediate emancipation of all African Americans. In the s this was a surprising and unco
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A printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, and civil rights activist, William Lloyd Garrison spent his life disturbing the peace of the nation in the cause of justice.
Born on December 10, , Garrison grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In , Garrison’s father abandoned his family. By age 11, Garrison had to support and educate himself. At the age of 13, he apprenticed to a printer and newspaper publisher. He had found his life's work.
In , Garrison met antislavery advocate Benjamin Lundy. He invited Garrison to come to Baltimore, Maryland and help publish Lundy's antislavery paper The Genius of Universal Emancipation. On July 4 of that same year, Garrison gave his first antislavery speech. Speaking in Boston's Park Street Church, Garrison strongly denounced the national sin of slavery. He also called for gradual emancipation of the enslaved and supported the American Colonization Society's program of shipping free Blacks to their "homeland" of Africa.1 Most Black Americans opposed gradualism and the largely White led colonization program. They declared that America, not Africa, provided the only homeland they had ever known.
Contact with Black Americans in Boston and Baltimore led Garrison to reject gradualism and colonization. In , back in Bost
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