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William Lloyd Garrison
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Noun1.William Lloyd Garrison - United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)


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It told of his intimacy with the Garrisonian wing of the abolitionist movement, of his successful speaking tour of the British Isles, the purchase of his freedom for $700 by a group of his admirers, two Englishwomen, and his moving over to Rochester, New York, where he brought out the first issue of the increasingly outspoken weekly newspaper he published for the thirteen years in December 1847 first as The North Star later as Frederick Douglas's Weekly and Monthly.
The lesson here would seem to be that simplistic Biblical literalism had to be on the side of the pro-slavery apologists (extreme anti-slavery opinions, such as the Garrisonian camp, would then demand that in the name of true morality a Bible that supported slavery had to be totally abandoned).
In "Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era," Jermaine O.
 
 
 
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