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<p>William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was "irrepressible, uncompromising, and inflammatory." He antagonized many, including some of his fellow reformers. There were also many who loved and respected him. But he was never overlooked.</p> <p>His letters, a source of the first magnitude, begin in 1822, when Garrison was seventeen, and end in 1879, the year of his death. They offer an insight into the mind and life of an outstanding figure in American history, a reformer-revolutionary who sought radical changes in the institutions of his day—in the relationship of the races, the rights of women, the nature and role of religion and religious institutions, and the relations between the state and its citizens; and who, perhaps more than any other single individual, was ultimately responsible for the emancipation of the slaves.</p> <p>Garrison's letters are also, <i>sui generis</i>, important as the expression of a vigorous writer, whose letters reflect his strength of character and warm humanity, a

Author

William Lloyd Garrison; Walter McIntosh Merrill; Louis Ruchames; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ; Distributed by Oxford University Press

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674526655

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir