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William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison is well known historian changing up the United States with his strong and powerful actions fighting for rights even though he was not as vocal as some of the most popular historians fighting against slavery he shared his opinion through his writing. As an abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer he had much to write about, best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper he founded called “The Liberator”, where he would continue to publish information until slavery was abolished as an amendment from the constitution after the American Civil War. He promoted anti-slavery and women suffrage becoming big voices in both movements.
William Lloyd Garrison at the age of thirteen was appointed to a seven-year apprenticeship as a writer and editor, he worked under Ephraim W.
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The rebellion had resulted in many deaths, and south states passing new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free black people, restricting rights of assembly located in the first constitutional amendment, along with restricting other rights for the free African Americans, and requiring white ministers to be present at all of their worship services. But, when the story on the Nat Turners Rebellion was released, Garrison wrote editorial explaining his feelings on the subject for the Liberator praising this outbreak of violence. In 1833, he founded the American Antislavery Society, an organization dedicated to achieving a huge change for abolition. Even though he did not take political actions other than, writing and speaking about the causes his supported. By 1840, Throughout the members a drift had begun with the defectors creating an organization called the American Foreign and Antislavery Society. In 1841, the abolishment movement was on a rise, while many abolitionists were pro-union, Garrison, viewed that the constitution being pro-slavery should not be allowed leaving the Union to

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