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William Lloyd Garrison was Born.
Born to a merchant sailor in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Three years afterwards, his father Abijah abandoned the family. -
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Lived with a Baptist Deacon
During this time period he lived with a Baptist deacon where he was able to receive a rudimentary level education. -
Seven Year Apprenticeship
When he was 13 Garrison managed to get a seven year apprenticeship as a writer and editor under Ephraim W. Allen of the Newburyport Herald. -
The End of the Apprenticeship
At the end of his apprenticeship he had aquired the necessary skills to open his own Newspaper. He borrowed money from his former employer in order to purchase the Newburyport Essex Courant, and renmaed the Newburyport Free Press. He used his newspaper as a political insturment for expressing the sentiment of the old federalist party. Unfortunately within the first six months, the newspaper press went under due to subscibers objections to it's political viewpoints on the federalists. -
Moving to Boston
Shortly after the Newsburyport Free Press folded, Garrison moved to Boston where he landed a job as a journeyman printer and editor for the Nation Philanthropist. -
Garrison's Beginning as an Abolitionist
While working for the National Philanthropist, Garrison met Banjamin Lundy who was the antislavery editor of the Genius of Emancipation. He was the one who introduced the Abolitionists Movement to Garrison's attention. Lundy later offered him an editor's position at Genius of Emancipation, he eagerly accepted. This was his initiation into the Abolitionist Movement. -
American Colonization Society
By the time he was 25, Garrison joined the American Colonization Society. They held the views that blacks should move to the West Coast of Africa. At first be believed the goal of the society was to promote black freedom and their wellbring, however he later discovered that the true goal was to minimize the amount of free slaves in the U.S. It became blear that this method only further support the mechanism of slavery. -
The Liberator
In 1830 he broke away from the American Colonization Society and started his own paper calling it the Liberator. As published in it's first issue, The Liberator's motto read, "Our Country is the World, our countrymen are mankind." This paper was what truly identified him as an Abolitionist. -
New England Antislavery Society
During this time, Garrison helped form the New England Antislavery Society. -
American Antislavery Society
After a short trip to England, he founded the American Antislavery Society which was a national organization dedicated to achieving the abolition of slavery. However, due to refraining from taking political action, many of his supporters gradually abandoned the pacifist. He had unintentionally created a wedge between his members. -
American Foreign and Antislavery Society
At this time, those who had left the American Antislavery Society formed their own organization naming it the American Foreign and Antislavery Society. -
The Constitution
At this time many abolitionists where pro-union. However, Garrison viewed the constitution as pro-slavery and believed it should be dissolved. -
Garrison & Frederick Douglas
During this period Garrison and former slave Frederick Douglas made a series of 40, anti-union speeches in the Alleghenies. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This provedto be a pivotal year, The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Cmpromise of 1820, which had regulated the extension of slavery during the prior 30 years. At this time settlers in those area where given the chance to vote and the majority vote would decided if they were pro-slavery. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Cont.
The plan which Garrison had considered "a hollow bargain for the North," backfired on them when slavery supporters and abolitionists alike rushed to the Kansas area so the could vote on the fate of slavery in the area, thus leading to hostilities which led to government corruption and violence. -
Congress & The Constitution
Dred Scott's Decision allowed the tensions to increase more between the two factions, as it established that the Congress was powerless to ban slavery in any federal territories. According to the constitution blacks were not only not protected by it but could never become U.S. Citizens -
The 13th Amendment
It wasn't until the Civil War of America came to a close in 1865, that Garrison was able to see his life-long dream come to fruition with the acceptance of the 13th Amendment, which made it clear slavery was outlawed throughout the United States - in both the North and the South. -
The Death of William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison passed away May 24th 1879 in New York City. -
REFERENCES
References:
http://www.biography.com/people/william-lloyd-garrison-9307251?page=3
http://www.shmoop.com/abolition/william-lloyd-garrison.html
http://history1800s.about.com/od/abolitionmovement/a/William-Lloyd-Garrison.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_Lloyd_Garrison.aspx
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
