WILLIAM LLOYD
GARRISON was
born in 1805, in Massachusetts where he became a printer's apprentice. By
1829, he was printing his own anti-slavery publication, The Genius of
Universal Emancipation in Baltimore. Baltimore was then a
capital of the slave trade in the country. (Coincidentally, Frederick
Douglass was in
Baltimore at the same time). Garrison's uncompromising stance aroused
great animosity, and a slave trader sued him for libel. He was fined for
the offense, was unable to pay it, and was jailed. After this debacle,
he returned to New England where in 1831 he and partner Isaac Knapp began
printing The Liberator. He fought hard for emancipation. After the
Civil War, he advocated the dissolution of anti-slavery groups as they
had already served their purpose. From then on he fought for negro
suffrage, then for womens' suffrage and other causes. He died in 1879.
Source: Summarized from Microsoft
Encarta.
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