William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison was one of foremost abolitionists in the United States. Garrison used a nonviolent, journalistic approach to speak out against the evils of slavery. Garrison is most famous for his anti-slavery journal The Liberator. He made his views very clear in the first issue of he journal: “I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as …showed first 75 words of 1938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1938 total…laid to rest in 1865, after 35 years of publication and 1,820 issues. Garrison was filled with the contentment of his success and gave his resignation to the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison’s last fourteen years on earth were spent in retirement during which he gave up his radical tactics. William Lloyd Garrison died on May 24, 1879 in New York, New York. Although William Garrison departed more than 100 years ago, his work will always live on through our history.