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William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) 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 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was partially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was originally created as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [2] Its first meeting took place in Putnam, Ohio, in April of 1835, [3] and gathered delegates from 25 counties, along with four corresponding members from other states, William T. Allan, James G. Birney, James A. Thome and Ebenezer Martin. [4]
As Lundy found himself with less time to devote to the paper, he met William Lloyd Garrison, and offered him an editing position. [3] After Lundy and Garrison parted ways over the "Black List," Lundy began working closely with John Quincy Adams to establish freedman's colonies in Mexico, after Mexico abolished slavery completely in 1829. [3]
The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was an abolitionist society in the United States. AASS formed in 1833 in response to the nullification crisis and the failures of existing anti-slavery organizations, such as the American Colonization Society. AASS formally dissolved in 1870. AASS was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
In 1833, while a principal owner of the Journal of Commerce, Arthur Tappan allied with William Lloyd Garrison and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. [6] Arthur served as its first president, and there was in 1835 a reward of $20,000 (equivalent to $590,710 in 2023) for his capture and delivery to New Orleans.
Constitution of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society : together with its by-laws, and a list of its officers. Boston: Garrison and Knapp, printers. New England Anti-Slavery Society; Buffum, Arnold (1832). Constitution of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society : with an address to the public. Printed by Garrison and Knapp. Garrison, Wm. Lloyd (1832).
In 1832, William Lloyd Garrison printed the letters in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison later called Rankin his "anti-slavery father," saying that "his book on slavery was the cause of my entering the anti-slavery conflict." [15]
This led to a split in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the nonviolent (but wanting it immediately) "moral suasion" of William Lloyd Garrison and his American Anti-Slavery Society, which linked abolition with women's rights, and Weld, the Tappan brothers, and other "pragmatic" (gradualist) abolitionists, [further explanation needed] who ...