William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential abolitionist leaders in America during the years that led up to the American Civil War. Through his newspaper, The Liberator, he passionately argued for an immediate and absolute freedom for all people held in slavery.

• 1828: Denounced the American Colonization Society
• 1830: Joined Abolition movement
• 1831: Founded anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator"
• 1832: Founded the New-England Anti-Slavery Society
• 1833: Founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
• 1834: Married Helen Eliza Benson
• 1854: Burned the constitution at an abolitionist meeting

1. "The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."
2. "With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
3. "The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
4. "I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! "

• 1805: December 10th, born in Newburyport, MA.

• 1831: January 1st, begins to publish the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.

• 1833: December, Garrison and approx. 60 others form the American Anti-Slavery Society.

• 1835: Almost lynched by an angry mob in Boston.

• 1854: Burns publicly a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

• 1863: January 1st, experiences Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

• 1879: May 24th, dies at his daughter's home in New York City.

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