William Lloyd Garrison

I am William Lloyd Garrison, the writer of The Liberator, the most radical anti-slavery newspaper available. I was born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts and had to survive selling molasses candy and delivering wood. I joined the Abolitionist movement when I was twenty-five years of age, and became affiliated with the American Colonization Society. However, their plans to send all free blacks to Africa became distasteful to me because most of the other members hoped to expand slavery by getting rid of freed slaves. After leaving them I joined the Genius of Universal Emancipation Newspaper, a paper entirely about gradual emancipation of slaves. After gaining further experience writing for Genius, I created The Liberator, now available on a weekly basis. I am also a co-founder of The American Anti-Slavery Society, and we are entirely focused on emancipation of all slaves. I am the most radical Abolitionist so far, and I hope to completely end slavery forever! Oh, and by the way I’m not welcome in the state of Georgia, have been stoned nearly to death, I was almost lynched in Boston, I public burned a copy of the Constitution, and I’ve been arrested in Baltimore; but it was all for my principles.