In the very first issue of his anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison stated, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will ...

After spending 49 days in jail for allegedly libeling a slave trader, William Lloyd Garrison wrote, “Free inquiry is the essence, the life blood of liberty.” A committee of the New York state ...

Henry Mayer, the author of All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery, asserts that Garrison has faded from Americans’ memories because most have forgotten the ...

Douglass became involved in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and preached abolitionism and was enlisted by renowned abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison as an abolitionist lecturer. Douglass ...

1831 - William Lloyd Garrison published first issue of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator;" 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the ...

click image for close-up By the time this photo was taken, William Lloyd Garrison's dream of a United States with no slavery had been realized. In 1865, at the close of the Civil War, and after ...

Henry Mayer, the author of All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery, asserts that Garrison has faded from Americans’ memories because most have forgotten the ...