William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the anti-slavery movement for three reasons: he wanted all slaves to be freed and have rights that a 36 year old white man would have, he help lead the abolitionist movement in writing and action, and he wrote to spread awareness for slavery’s brutal nature and for real life events that helped the abolishment of slavery.
The first reason William Lloyd Garrison was one of the …show more content…
The second reason William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the anti-slavery movement is he help lead the abolitionist movement in writing and action. His leadership was based on his paternal status in the abolitionist movement. The abolitionist speakers kept Garrison’s earliest copies of The Liberator as relics. He protested the US government when a slave was done wrong. Finally he founded the American Antislavery Society witch focused on achieving abolition.
William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the anti-slavery movement because he wrote to spread awareness for slavery’s brutal nature and for real life events that helped the abolishment of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison wrote preface to Frederick Douglas’s book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which is about the cruel, heartless, life of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison had his own article called The Liberator which talked about controversial slavery topics. Garrison wrote on John Browns assault on Harpers Ferry. This assault was meant to free slaves and put fear into slaveholder’s …show more content…
William Lloyd Garrison believed that the only way to abolish slavery is to persuade one that it is wrong.
Finally I would like to leave one with a quote to dwell upon: “Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set