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A Short Biography of William Garrison

Author Name:

William Garrison

Born As:

William Lloyd Garrison

Other Names:

William Lloyd Garrison

Born:

12 Dec 1805

Died:

24 May 1879




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Abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer                          
                          
Mother Frances Maria Lloyd
Father Abijah Garrison
Wife Helen Eliza Benson, five sons and two daughters, of whom a son and a daughter died as children.                          
Editor - The Liberator
One of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Notable critic of the prevailing conservative religious orthodoxy that supported slavery and opposed suffrage for woman.
Began writing for/and became co-editor with Benjamin Lundy of the Quaker Genius of Universal Emancipation.

Began writing for/and became co-editor with Benjamin Lundy of the Quaker Genius of Universal Emancipation - one of the regular features that Garrison introduced during his time at the Genius was "The Black List," a column devoted to printing short reports of "the barbarities of slavery - kidnappings, whippings, murders.