William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison, c. 1870
Born	(1805-12-10)December 10, 1805 Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 24, 1879(1879-05-24) (aged 73) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Abolitionist, journalist
Known for	Editing The Liberator Supporting women's rights
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Helen Eliza Benson Garrison ​ ​ (m. 1834; died 1876)​
Children	5
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William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was partially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women and in the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.

Garrison promoted "no-governmentism" and rejected the inherent validity of the American government on the basis that its engagement in war, imperialism, and slavery made it corrupt and tyrannical. He initially opposed violence as a principle and advocated for Christian pacifism against evil; at the outbreak of the American Civil War, he abandoned his previous principles and embraced the armed struggle and the Lincoln administration. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society and promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States.

Garrison was a typesetter, which aided him in running The Liberator. When working on his own editorials for the paper, Garrison would compose them while setting the type for the publication, without first writing them out on paper.^[1]: 57