William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which G
Garrison, c. 1870
Portrait of Garrison by Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1833
Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison in The Century Magazine
Anne Whitney, William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, Massachusetts Historical Society
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
William Lloyd Garrison
…Agreement with Hell", referring to the three-fifths compromise that had written slavery into the Constitution. In 1855, his eight-year alliance with Frederick Douglass disintegrated when Douglass converted to classical liberal legal theorist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner's view (dominant among political abolitionists…
Douglass, c. 1879
Anna Murray Douglass, Douglass's wife for 44 years, portrait c. 1860
Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s
The home and meetinghouse of the Johnsons, where Douglass and his wife lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts