William Lloyd Garrison Research Paper

In 1619 African slavery began in the United States. Slavery lasted for many years in the United States until people decided to make a movement against slavery. These people were abolitionists. During the effort to end slavery slave owners kept on disagreeing with this movement of demanding slavery to end. Slavery began in the United States in the year 1619 so that slave owners had people to work on tobacco and cotton crops. With some states banning slavery and the importing of slaves some people were actually very nervous about having slavery in the United States. When it was originally written, the constitution had not limitations about slavery. With the improvement of technology such as the cotton gin and the sewing machine, most southern …show more content…
Garrison lived from 1805 – 1879. During his life, Garrison bought a newspaper company and used it as a political instrument. In 1830 Garrison started a newspaper called “The Liberator”, an abolitionist newspaper to help end slavery. Garrison also became an abolitionist in 1828 for a group called the Genius of Emancipation. Garrison supported Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his wants to end slavery in The Liberator Two years later Garrison helped form the New England Antislavery Society. Then in 1833 after a trip to England, Garrison decided to found the American Antislavery Society. In 1847, Garrison and former slave Frederick Douglass made forty Anti-Union speeches against slavery. After the civil war Garrison had succeeded in seeing slavery end. In 1879 Garrison …show more content…
When Douglass was fifteen he educated slaves, fought against a slave breaker, and planned an escape. On September third, 1838, Douglass disguised himself and escaped to New York to escape slavery thanks to the help of a woman named Anna Murray. After escaping slavery Douglass married Anna and they moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts to raise their family and adopted the name Douglass. In 1845 Douglass published an autobiography which described the places and people of where he was enslaved. Douglass went overseas to England, Ireland, and Scotland for two years to avoid being re-enslaved. While overseas Douglass presented speeches and sold many copies of his book. Abolitionists bought Douglass’s freedom and Douglass returned to the United States as a legally free man. Douglass moved his family to New York, there he helped with the Underground Railroad, participated in anti-slavery protests, and embraced the Women’s Rights movement. Also in New York, Douglass published a second autobiography. Just like William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass bought a newspaper company and ran The North Star paper. After the Movement was done, Douglass was able to hold high federal appointments under five presidents from 1877 – 1891. Douglass published a third autobiography. When going to a speech, Douglass suffered and died from a heart attack at the age of

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