WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 1805 1879 ABOLITIONIST AND PUBLISHER GARRISON WILLIAM LLOYD 1805 1879 ABOLITION REFORM MOVEMENTS AMERICAN CULTURE WILLIAM GARRISON BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON WAS RAISED BY HIS MOTHER IN 1818 HE BECAME A NEWSPAPER APPRENTICE AND PUBLISHED HIS OWN NEWSPAPER AT AGE 21 HE LATER EDITED SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING ONE EDITED BY ABOLITIONIST BENJAMIN LUNDY GARRISON STARTED HIS OWN ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER THE LIBERATOR IN 1831 GARRISON AND OTHER ABOLITIONISTS FORMED THE AMERICAN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY TWO YEARS LATER GARRISON DEMANDED IMMEDIATE AND COMPLETE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES HE ALSO WANTED THE NORTH TO WITHDRAW FROM THE UNION WHICH PROTECTED SLAVERY WITH THE FREEING OF ALL SLAVES FOLLOWING THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR GARRISON FELT HIS EFFORTS HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT GARRISON SHUT DOWN THE LIBERATOR IN HIS LATER YEARS GARRISON SUPPORTED OTHER REFORM CAUSES
