Abolitionists
By TNteam • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Academics [The Great American History Fact-Finder]
Garrison, William Lloyd
(1805-79) Garrison founded the antislavery newspaper the Liberator in 1831 and published it until 1865, when slavery was abolished. He helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, serving as its president from 1843 to 1865. Once almost lynched by an angry Boston mob because of his extreme […]
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