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Born:12/10/1805
Born in: Newburyport, Massachusetts (he grew up there)
Died and Why: 5/24/1879, Chronic Kidney Disease

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- fell into poverty to his very religious baptist mom after his father left him

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- received limited education from a Baptist Deacon
-Maintained himself by working for a newspaper (The Liberator)

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- called slave owner highway robber/murderer
- had a jail sentence because of this for 6 months
- Boston, angry mob dragged him through streets with a rope around his neck
- once he did not take political action and his followers left him
- created a fracture between all members in American Anti-Slavery Society

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- 1832: helped form New England Anti-Slavery Society
- Founded American Anti-Slavery Society
- Helped lead a successful abolitionist campaign in the U.S.

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- against slavery

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- joined the American Colonization Society
- worked with Benjamin Lundy (Anti-Slavery Advocate)

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- he wrote a newspaper, The Liberator
- was a speaker
- argued for the immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves

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William Lloyd Garrison is important and is well known for because he helped many slaves and helped abolish slavery. He lead the abolitionist campaign in the USA. Lastly, he published "The first issue of his anti-slavery newspaper" called, "The Liberator".

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“work while there’s  life and breath in me;”

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“drew in their  breath, as if to prepare for the storm that was about to burst.”