Abolition & William Lloyd Garrison

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Abolition & William Lloyd

Garrison

Learning Target

I can identify the important individuals that played a pivotal role in abolition
movement and the contributions they made.

Open Ended

What does abolition mean?

Open Ended

who are some important individuals you know of that took part in the abolition movement?

Important Abolitionists:

-William Lloyd Garrison

-Frederick Douglass

-Harriet Tubman

-Sojourner Truth

William Lloyd Garrison

-Born in 1805, in Massachusetts

-He was a very prominent U.S. abolitionist, and
newspaper writer and editor

-Garrison worked on a newspaper that focused on social
reform

-Later became co-editor of an abolitionist publication

-He would travel across the US and England to speak
out against slavery

-He would also support women's rights movements and
the Temperance movement as well.

-The state of Georgia hated Garrison and the Liberator
so much that they offered a $5000 reward for his
capture.

The Liberator!

-One of the most extreme antislavery newspapers in the country

-Had the advocacy for the immediate emancipation for the millions
of African Americans held in slavery across the South

Garrison’s letter

“[The Liberator] has operated like a trumpet-call. They have risen in their hopes and feelings to the perfect stature of men: in this city, every one of them is as tall as a giant. About ninety have subscribed for the paper in Philadelphia, and upwards of thirty in New-York, which number, I am assured, will swell to at
least one hundred in a few weeks.”

Garrisons first issue in the Liberator

I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause
for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as un-compromising as justice. On this
subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man
whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his
wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe
from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause
like the present. I am in earnest- I will not equivocate- I will not excuse- I
will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

Design the Headline:

You are working for the Liberator. Create a headline and article based on the
primary source material we looked at. Those sources are in your google
classroom to reference. Design your article and headline on a blank sheet of
paper. Use details from the sources to support your article.