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[[Image:Williamlloydgarrison.jpg|200px|thumb|William Lloyd Garrison]]

'''William Lloyd Garrison''' (1805-1879) was a white leader of the [[abolitionist]] movement in Boston, where he published the anti-[[slavery]] newspaper the ''Liberator''.  In 1833, he founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

'''William Lloyd Garrison''' (1805-1879) was a white leader of the [[abolitionist]] movement in [[Boston]], where he published the anti-[[slavery]] newspaper the ''Liberator''.  In 1833, he founded the [[American]] Anti-[[Slavery]] Society.

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>  

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>  

The former slave [[Frederick Douglass]] wrote in ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' (1855):  

The former slave [[Frederick Douglass]] wrote in ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' (1855):  

:After reaching New Bedford, there came a young man to me with a copy of the Liberator...edited by William Lloyd Garrison...  His paper took its place with me next to the [[Bible]]...It detested slavery...and, with all the solemnity of God's word, demanded the complete emancipation of my race... His words were... holy fire...The Bible was his text book... Prejudice against color was rebellion against God.

:After reaching New Bedford, there came a young man to me with a copy of the Liberator...edited by William Lloyd Garrison...  His paper took its place with me next to the [[Bible]]...It detested slavery...and, with all the solemnity of God's word, demanded the complete emancipation of my race... His words were... holy fire...The Bible was his text book... Prejudice against color was rebellion against [[God]].

 

 

 

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