In the very first issue of his anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison stated, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-abolitionists-garrison-burns-constitution/ After fighting for the abolition of slavery for 25 years, William ...

In September of 1838, former slave Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his ...