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William Lloyd Garrison

noun

United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879). Synonym: Garrison.

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... opposed to Slavery. History belies this statement Harriet Martineau, when she visited America and stood on the anti-slavery platform, says she was in danger of her life in the North while scarcely molested in the South. When William Lloyd Garrison delivered his first anti-slavery lecture in Boston, the classic home of American orthodoxy, every Catholic and Protestant church was closed against him, and he was obliged to accept the use of Julian Hall from Abner Kneeland, an infidel who had been prosecuted for ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

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... fanaticism in the States; New York had always been in sympathy, for the most part with the Southern States, where slavery was a necessary institution to the climate and the cotton industry. He went on to tell me that about a year before a maniacal cobbler named William Lloyd Garrison had started a little paper called The Liberator in which he advocated slave insurrections and the overthrow of the laws sustaining slavery; and that a movement was now on foot in New England to found the American ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

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Words linked to "William Lloyd Garrison" : emancipationist, abolitionist