William Lloyd Garrison

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abolitionist human journalist social reformer

William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for founding and editing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and advocating immediate emancipation.

Aliases (2)

Wendell Phillips ×1
William Lloyd Garrison Jr. ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abolitionist → human → journalist → social reformer →
advocated	immediate emancipation of enslaved people → moral suasion against slavery → nonviolence → women's suffrage →
associatedWith	American Anti-Slavery Society → Frederick Douglass → Lucretia Mott → Wendell Phillips →
burialPlace	Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
coFounded	American Anti-Slavery Society →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1805-12-10 →
dateOfDeath	1879-05-24 →
describedAs	radical abolitionist →
editorOf	The Liberator →
endOfActivity	1870s →
familyName	Garrison →
founded	The Liberator →
fullName	William Lloyd Garrison →
givenName	William →
language	English →
middleName	Lloyd →
movement	abolitionism → temperance movement → women's rights movement →
notableIdea	immediate, unconditional emancipation → no union with slaveholders →
notableWork	No Compromise with Slavery → The Liberator → Thoughts on African Colonization →
occupation	lecturer → newspaper editor → publisher → writer →
opposed	colonization of freed Black people to Africa → gradual emancipation →
parentOf	Wendell Phillips Garrison →
placeOfBirth	Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	New York City, New York, United States →
positionHeld	co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society →
religion	Christianity →
residence	Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
spouse	Helen Eliza Benson Garrison →
startOfActivity	1820s →

Referenced by (31)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
American Anti-Slavery Society → American Woman Suffrage Association → Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society →	foundedBy
Anti-Slavery Office → Wendell Phillips →	associatedWith
No Compromise with Slavery → Thoughts on African Colonization →	author
William Lloyd Garrison → William Lloyd Garrison →	fullName
American Anti-Slavery Society → Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society →	notableMember
William Lloyd Garrison →	birthName
Sydney Howard Gay →	collaboratedWith
The Liberator →	editor
Wendell Phillips Garrison →	father
The Liberator →	founder
Oswald Garrison Villard →	grandfather
The Liberator ("Wendell Phillips") →	hadContributor
Garrison →	hasNotableBearer
Forest Hills Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave →	hasPrefaceBy
Commonwealth Avenue Mall →	hasStatueOf
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn →	hostedSpeaker
Lloyd →	isMiddleNameOf
American Woman Suffrage Association →	keyPerson
The North Star →	notableContributor
American abolitionist movement →	notableFigure
American Colonization Society →	opposedBy
The Liberator →	publisher
Oswald Garrison Villard →	relative
Wendell Phillips Garrison ("William Lloyd Garrison Jr.") →	sibling