Biography of william lloyd garrison

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William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist and abolitionist (–)

William Lloyd Garrison
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Born	()December 10, Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 24, () (aged&#;73) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Abolitionist, journalist
Known&#;for	Editing The Liberator Supporting women's rights
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Helen Eliza Benson Garrison &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;
Children	5

William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, – May 24, ) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was partially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in He supported the rights of women and in the s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.

Garrison promoted "no-governmentism" and rejected the inherent validity of the American government on the basis that its engagement in war, imperialism, and slavery made it corrupt and tyrannical. His belief in individual sovereignty, and critique of coercive authority have been recognized as a precursor t

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A printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, and civil rights activist, William Lloyd Garrison spent his life disturbing the peace of the nation in the cause of justice.

Born on December 10, , Garrison grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In , Garrison’s father abandoned his family. By age 11, Garrison had to support and educate himself. At the age of 13, he apprenticed to a printer and newspaper publisher. He had found his life's work.

In , Garrison met antislavery advocate Benjamin Lundy. He invited Garrison to come to Baltimore, Maryland and help publish Lundy's antislavery paper The Genius of Universal Emancipation. On July 4 of that same year, Garrison gave his first antislavery speech. Speaking in Boston's Park Street Church, Garrison strongly denounced the national sin of slavery. He also called for gradual emancipation of the enslaved and supported the American Colonization Society's program of shipping free Blacks to their "homeland" of Africa.¹ Most Black Americans opposed gradualism and the largely White led colonization program. They declared that America, not Africa, provided the only homeland they had ever known.

Contact with Black Americans in Boston and Baltimore led Garrison to reject gradualism and colonization. In , back in Bost