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William Lloyd Garrison: Abolitionist Against Slavery
I would like to introduce myself; I am William Lloyd Garrison, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on December 10, 1805. I was raised in a single parent home with my mother, who worked incredibly hard to support three children, as well as being a very spiritual woman (William Lloyd Garrison, 2004) (Garrison, 2004). Growing up as a child, I set certain ambition and goals for myself to accomplish in life. With hard work and tenacity, I was able to become a journalist, an editor of Liberator, which is a well-known paper, an abolitionist against the cruelty of slavery that I felt was morally wrong, and a social reformer. According to James Russell Howell, society has not fully comprehended the importance and the magnitude of how Liberator, William

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