This is a very good example of them going out on a limb and trying to be diplomatic.” The document shows ministers had hoped “some reformatory movement” led by those involved in slavery would ... the ...

University of Alabama Professor Joshua Rothman discussed the early abolitionist movement in the 1830s. He talked about William Lloyd Garrison and the Anti-Slavery Societies at the time.

It wasn’t until the 1830s that slavery finally forced itself onto the national agenda again, with the founding of the thunderingly abolitionist newspaper the Liberator and the establishment, in ...

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 ...