William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison was a 19th-century reformer and abolitionist who founded the Liberator newspaper during the civil war era. Garrison was a Christian who pushed for moral reform and was known to be an anti-slavery activist. Throughout his career, Garrison went on to support emancipation, women's rights, and nonresistance to the biblical injunctions.

William Garrison was born in 1805 in Massachusetts to a devoted Baptist mother who raised him and his siblings in poverty. He grew up in an atmosphere of Christianity and the abolitionist movement which influenced his future endeavors. Garrison began working for various newspapers and journals including the National Philanthropist Newspaper and The Journal of the Times.

  

In 1831, Garrison founded The Liberator which became one of the most radical anti-slavery journals of the time. Almost four years after the creation of The Liberator, Garrison renounced church and state and embraced Christian perfectionism in his writing. During the Civil War, as the strides against slavery increased, his popularity decreased, which inevitably made his radicalism increase.

                                            

    

Garrison was recognized for his strong influence in anti-slavery efforts, support for emancipation, women's rights, and Christian views. In 1904, Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, published a biography of Garrison due to his inspiration from Garrison's focus on Christianity. Garrison is honored by a memorial statue in Boston, Massachusetts.