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[[Image:Williamlloydgarrison.jpg|200px|thumb|William Lloyd Garrison]]
 
[[Image:Williamlloydgarrison.jpg|200px|thumb|William Lloyd Garrison]]
'''William Lloyd Garrison''' (1805-1879) was a white leader of the [[abolitionism]] movement in America. Based in Boston, he published the anti-slavery newspaper the ''Liberator''. In 1833, he founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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'''William Lloyd Garrison''' (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent leader of the [[abolitionism]] movement in America. Based in [[Boston]], he published the anti-slavery newspaper ''The Liberator''. In 1833, he founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Garrison, who did not originally feel that [[Abraham Lincoln]] was sufficiently opposed to [[slavery]], wrote in 1885-89:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-05-24&view=View</ref>  
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Garrison, who did not originally feel that [[Abraham Lincoln]] was sufficiently opposed to [[slavery]], wrote in 1885-89:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-05-24&view=View</ref>
    
:Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
 
:Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
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