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Founder of The Liberator
As a proponent of immediate emancipation who condemned the United States Constitution as a proslavery document, William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), a white abolitionist, received national attention when he began to publish a newspaper called The Liberator in 1831. Many white abolitionists and many members of the African American community supported Garrison. Churches, anti-slavery organizations, and wealthy blacks such as Robert Purvis, John B. Vashon, and James Forten contributed money, articles, or both to support the newspaper. Garrison published the paper until the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949), one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization that would later be in the vanguard of the civil rights movement, was Garrison's grandson. |