William Lloyd Garrison
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
a leading abolitionist, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, December 12, 1804. His mother was early left a widow, and poor, so that the son, after various attempts at learning a trade, was at length apprenticed to a printer in his native town, where he soon began to write for the journals, and in 1826 became proprietor of the Free Press. This not succeeding financially, he started in 1827 the National Philanthropist, in the advocacy of moral reforms, and in 1831 the Liberator, a fierce opponent of slavery, which was continued till the act of emancipation during the civil war. He was often in personal peril by the violence of the friends of slavery. He visited England several times in furtherance of his principles, and was received there with great enthusiasm. He died May 24, 1879. He published Sonnets and Other Poems (1848), and a selection from his Speeches and Writings (1852).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
American journalist and abolitionist, born at Newburyport, Mass.; in his native town he rose to be editor of the Herald at 19, and five years later became joint-editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation ; his vigorous denunciation of slavery involved him in a charge of libel and brought about his imprisonment, from which he was liberated by a friend paying his fine; at Boston, in 1831, he founded his celebrated Liberator , a paper in which he unweariedly, and in the face of violent threats, advocated his anti-slavery opinions till 1865, when the cause was won; he visited England on several occasions in support of emancipation, and in 1868 his great labours in the cause were recognised by a gift of 30,000 dollars from his friends (1804-1879).
