William Lloyd Garrison
Peace activist, Author
1805 – 1879
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Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.
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- Born
- Dec 12, 1805
Newburyport - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- May 24, 1879
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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