William Lloyd Garrison Cards

Description: William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.

Description: Celebrate the leaders of the US Abolitionist movement as they fought to end slavery in the nineteenth century - William Lloyd Garrison, William Still, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.