William Lloyd Garrison

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William Lloyd Garrison

• By Arielle Budney
• Jamie Hofstetter
• Kim Alderman

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Early Life

• Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts (from the
  north)
• His family was part of the middling ranks of
  their town
• Williams father deserted the family, leaving
  them penniless, forcing William to work at a
  young age
• In 1818, began working for the Newburyport Herald
  as a writer and editor

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Early Life (continued)

• He excelled at his job as editor, partly
  because of his love for it
• He was apprenticed for a seven year term
• Caleb Cushing was the man who brought slavery
  to Garrisons attention
• Found slavery to be unchristian so began
  writing his beliefs about it.

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The Abolitionist Movement

• Early 1830s
• By-product of religious revivalism popularly
  known as the Great Awakening
• Attempted to achieve immediate liberation of all
  slaves and the ending of racial segregation and
  discrimination
• Revivalist views led abolitionists to see
  slavery as a product of personal sin
• At age 25, Lloyd joined the Abolitionist
  Movement

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Contributions to the Movement

• He became associated with the American
  Colonization society
• -believed free blacks should emigrate to a
  territory on the west coast of Africa
• -promoted the freedom and happiness of blacks
• -Most members had no wish to free slaves, their
  goal was only to reduce the number of free blacks
  in the country and thus help preserve the
  institution of slavery
• -He soon rejected this society

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Contributions to the Movement (continued)

• At this time worked as a co-editor of an
  anti-slavery paper, The Genius of Universal
  Emancipation
• On January 1, 1831, he published the first
  issue of the antislavery newspaper, the
  Liberator
• About 75 of the readers of the Liberator were
  free black slaves
• Advocated the immediate emancipation of
  slaves believed they too, were Americans and are
  entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
  happiness.

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Contributions to the Movement (continued)

• Because he was a radical
• Gained the reputation of being the most
  radical of the abolitionists
• Stressed nonviolence and passive resistance
• His task show people how immoral slavery was
  and they would join in the campaign
• In 1832 he helped organize the New England
  Anti-Slavery Society-one of the first
  organizations promoting the immediate
  emancipation of slaves

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Contributions to the Movement (continued)

• In 1832 he helped organize the New England
  Anti-Slavery Society-one of the first
  organizations promoting the immediate
  emancipation of slaves
• -Believed the Anti-Slavery society should
  not align itself with a political
  party -Believed women should be allowed to
  participate -Believed the US Constitution was a
  pro- slavery document

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Contributions to the Movement (continued)

• In 1844 Garrison adopted the slogan "No union
  with slaveholders," arguing that since the
  Constitution was a proslavery document, the Union
  it held together should be dissolved by the
  separation of free from slave states.
• Liberty for each, for all, and forever. William
  Lloyd Garrison
• "I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will
  not excuse I will not retreat a single inch
  AND I WILL BE HEARD," William Lloyd Garrison

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Effects of his Contributions

• Worked hard for slavery to be banned in the
  United States
• Supported Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation and
  the reelection of Lincoln in 1864
• After the Civil War, he published his last issue
  of the Liberator in 1865
• Impact on media
• - Represented the freedom of speech and press
• - Said many things the people did not want to
  hear
• He died on May 24, 1879

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Works Cited

• Garrison, William Lloyd. 14 Apr. 1865. The
  Philanthropist. Web. 11 Apr. 2010.
  lthttps//www.msu.edu/?dykhous2/?Wm__Garrison/?wm_
  _garrison.htmlgt.
• The Liberator. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2010.
  lthttp//www.olemiss.edu/?courses/?his105/?images/?
  liberator.jpggt.
• "William Lloyd Garrison ." Africans in America.
  N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr 2010. lthttp//www.pbs.org/w
  gbh/aia/part4/4p1561.htmlgt.