"The Liberator"
Let’s start diving into the Abolitionists. We’ll start with William Lloyd Garrison.
Amazon and Gutenberg have free downloads of articles from “The Liberator” and also his pamphlets. Amazon also has some free Kindle downloads. And there are some YouTube videos.
Celebrating “The Liberator”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3XPR4t-g4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGW5kMu5pA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RmlewT6eC4
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There are a number of Bios but I’m not sure which to recommend. You may have to read the free pages from Amazon in order to decide. One option: William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimke
How’s this from the first issue of the Liberator:
In Park-Street Church, on the Fourth of July, 1829, I unreflectingly assented to the popular but pernicious doctrine of gradual abolition. I seize this moment to make a full and unequivocal recantation, and thus publicly to ask pardon of my God, of my country, and of my brethren the poor slaves, for having uttered a sentiment so full of timidity, injustice, and absurdity. A similar recantation, from my pen, was published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation at Baltimore, in September 1829. My conscience is now satisfied. I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen;—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Get to know Garrison.