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William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist, suffragist, and social reformer in the 1800s. He founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Friends of Universal Reform.
He was a famous abolitionist as well as journalist and social reformer. He was an editor of The Liberator, and a founder of the American Anti-slavery Society. He was also very supportive of the women's suffrage movement. He was a writer and coeditor for Genuis of Universal Emancipation newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland. He founded the Liberator, which was a weekly anti-slavery newspaper. founded the New England Anti Slavery Society. The next year, he co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
The abolitionist Propaganda began to frighten and worry the people of the South. The demand for immediate abolition of Garrison made think of many of them
that it would raise terrible revolts of the slaves and the massacre of the white population.
The abolitionists' uncompromising morality caused that the people of the South was brought to consider the movement as a "band of fanatics."
The population of the North also considered them fanatics and people who went looking for trouble. In Philadelphia and New York the abolitionists were driven by popular acclaim. In Boston, Garrison miraculously escaped a lynching. The abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois was even killed by the mob. In the elections of 1844 the abolitionist "Party of Freedom" won 65 000 votes (the 2%)out of a total of 2 500 000.
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William Lloyd Garrison interpreted the Constitution as a racist document with slavery written into it. Some abolitionists, including his longtime friend, Frederick Douglas totally disagreed with this interpretation and considered the document anti-slavery. As a result, the movement split according to ideologies.
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urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.