GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD
\ɡˈaɹɪsən], \ɡˈaɹɪsən], \ɡ_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_s_ə_n]\
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(1805-1879), was born in Massachusetts. He began his career in the employ of the Newburyport Herald in 1818, making anonymous contributions reproving the general apathy on the subject of slavery. Between 1826 and 1831 he edited various emancipation papers, among them the Herald, Free Press, National Philanthropist, Journal of the Times and the Genius of Universal Emancipation. He also delivered series of lectures in the interest of emancipation. From 1831 to 1860 he edited the Liberator, which exerted an immense influence against slavery. In 1832 the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed and organized by him, and soon afterward he became its president. His efforts for the abolition of slavery were unceasing until the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln had gone into effect. His influence in the anti-slavery cause was greater than that of any other man. Life by his sons, four volumes.
By John Franklin Jameson
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