William Lloyd Garrison

Examples of William Lloyd Garrison in the following topics:

• The Politics of Slavery

  • The abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers such as free blacks, evangelical reformers, and William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
  • William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts distinguished himself as the leader of the abolitionist movement.
  • Garrison founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1831 and the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833.
  • William Lloyd Garrison led the abolitionist movement in the North and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833.
  • Discuss the rise of the abolitionist movement and William Lloyd Garrison's role

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • African-American activists and their writings were rarely heard outside the black community; however, they were tremendously influential to some sympathetic white people, most prominently the first white activist to reach prominence, William Lloyd Garrison [], who was its most effective propagandist.
  • Garrison's efforts to recruit eloquent spokesmen led to the discovery of ex-slave Frederick Douglass [], who eventually became a prominent activist in his own right.
  • The Garrisonians, led by Garrison and Wendell Phillips, publicly burned copies of the Constitution, called it a pact with slavery, and demanded its abolition and replacement.

• From Gradualism to Abolition

  • The Garrisonians, led by William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, publicly burned copies of the Constitution, calling it a pact with slavery, and demanded its abolition and replacement.
  • One such sympathetic abolitionist was William Lloyd Garrison.
  • Garrison's efforts to recruit eloquent spokesmen from within the African-American community led him to Frederick Douglass, who was a prominent activist in his own right.

• The Old South

  • The abolitionist movement was led by social reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe; former slaves such as Frederick Douglass; and free blacks such as Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.

• Abolitionists and the American Ideal

  • The white abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers, especially William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
  • Historians traditionally distinguish between "gradualists," moderate antislavery reformers who concentrated on stopping the spread of slavery, and "immediatists," or radical abolitionists (such as William Lloyd Garrison) whose demands for unconditional emancipation often merged with their concern for African-American civil rights. 

• Legal Changes to Slavery: 1777-1804

  • Its leaders Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison adopted the "twin rocks" of "the Bible and the Declaration of Independence" as the basis for their philosophies.
  • For radical abolitionists like Garrison, the most important part of the Declaration was its assertion of the right of revolution; Garrison called for the destruction of the government under the Constitution and the creation of a new state, dedicated to the principles of the Declaration.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the National Women's Rights Convention in 1850.

• The Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • William Lloyd Garrison, a prominent leader of the antislavery movement, called Harper's raid a "misguided" and "insane" act.

• Women's Rights

  • In 1850, she met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the larger National Women's Rights Convention.

• Newspapers

  • The abolitionist press, which began with The Emancipator of 1820 and had its chief representative in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, forced the slavery question upon the newspapers, and a struggle for the freedom of the press ensued.