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William Lloyd Garrison
December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879
Editor of *The Liberator* who demanded immediate emancipation with uncompromising moral rhetoric.
abolitionistjournalism
Garrison's Boston newspaper The Liberator declared slavery a national sin demanding repentance, not gradual schemes. He burned copies of the Constitution calling it "a covenant with death," partnered with formerly enslaved thinkers like Frederick Douglass (later falling out over tactics), and helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society.