William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (1804-1879) was an American journalist and abolitionist, born at Newburyport, Massachusetts. In his native town he rose to be editor of the Herald at 19, and five years later became joint-editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation. His vigorous denunciation of slavery involved him in a charge of libel and brought about his imprisonment, from which he was liberated by a friend paying his fine. At Boston, in 1831, he founded his celebrated Liberator, a paper in which he unweariedly, and in the face of violent threats, advocated his anti-slavery opinions till 1865, when the cause was won. He visited England on several occasions in support of emancipation, and in 1868 his great labours in the cause were recognised by a gift of 30,000 dollars from his friends.

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