William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

(December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879)

2 слайд * William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most passionate, dedicated abolitionist in the 19th century.

* Who is abolitionist? Someone that works toward a complete end to slavery.

3 слайд * Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1805. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.

4 слайд * At the age of 25, Garrison joined the anti-slavery movement.

5 слайд* In 1831 Garrison co-founded a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with his friend Isaac Knapp. Paid subscription to The Liberator was always smaller than its circulation. In 1834 it had two thousand subscribers, three-fourths of whom were blacks. Benefactors paid to have the newspaper distributed to influential statesmen and public officials. Although Garrison rejected physical force as a means for ending slavery, his critics took his demand for immediate emancipation literally. Some believed he advocated the sudden and total freeing of all slaves, and considered him a dangerous fanatic. A North Carolina grand jury indicted him for distributing incendiary material, and the Georgia Legislature offered a $5,000 reward for his capture and conveyance to the state for trial.

6 слайд* Before creating his own newspaper Garrison worked in the newspaper called Genius of Universal Emancipation. Garrison introduced "The Black List," a column devoted to printing short reports of "the barbarities of slavery—kidnappings, whippings, murders. After the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Garrison published the last issue writing a "Valedictory" column.

7 слайд* In addition to publishing The Liberator, Garrison spearheaded the organization of a new movement to demand the total abolition of slavery in the United States. In 1832, he helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery Society.  Garrison believed that the Anti-Slavery Society shouldn’t align itself with political party.

8 слайд* Garrison's appeal for women's mass petitioning against slavery sparked a controversy over women's right to a political voice. Garrison announced in December 1837 that The Liberator would support "the rights of woman to their utmost extent." In 1840, Garrison's promotion of woman's rights within the anti-slavery movement was one of the issues that caused some abolitionists to leave the Anti-Slavery Society. Although some members of the Liberty Party supported woman's rights, including women's suffrage, Garrison's Liberator continued to be the leading advocate of woman's rights throughout the 1840s, publishing editorials, speeches, legislative reports and other developments concerning the subject.

9 слайд* (этот пункт можно убрать) In 1849, Garrison became involved in one of Boston's most notable trials of the time. Washington Goode, a black seaman had been sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow black mariner, Thomas Harding. In The Liberator Garrison argued that the verdict relied on "circumstantial evidence of the most flimsy character ..." and feared that the determination of the government to uphold its decision to execute Goode was based on race. As all other death sentences since 1836 in Boston had been commuted, Garrison concluded that Goode would be the last person executed in Boston for a capital offense writing, "Let it not be said that the last man Massachusetts bore to hang was a colored man!" Despite the efforts of Garrison and many other prominent figures of the time, Goode was hanged on May 25, 1849.