Article: Arguments through the ages; William Lloyd Garrison: a moderate alarm for a burning house.(NEWS)(SERIES: Arguments through the ages)

Editor's note: William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator, was a controversial and fiery enemy of slavery who had a way of alienating even his own supporters. His opposition to slavery brought him into conflict with organized religion, with law enforcement and with other abolitionists. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. In the pages of the Liberator, which was published in Boston from 1831 to 1865, Garrison also attacked animal abuse and discrimination against women. His inaugural editorial in The Liberator, from which this excerpt is taken, argued against the moderate approach that some of his ...

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