william l garrison

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  Hi, I'm William L.

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  Garrison, an american journalists and abolitionist.

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  I was born on December 10, in Newburyport Massachusetts.

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  I was raised by a baptist deacon and spent a

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  lot of my free time in church.

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  During those free time, I grew a passion for writing.

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  At only age 13.

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  I became the writer and editor of the Newburyport Herald.

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  I also bought a newspaper a couple years later and

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  called it The Newburyport Free Press.

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  My main goal was to end slavery and gain freedom

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  for black people, but I also wanted to gain more

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  equal rights for women.

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  Some challenges I've had were not always being on the

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  same page with the other abolitionist.

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  I've read the constitution as pro slavery and didn't support

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  the union.

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  I also went to jail for writing about a merchant

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  who was involved in the coastal slave trade in my

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  newspaper. Though I believe I did the right thing.

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  In 1830 I established my own abolitionist paper called the

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  Liberator. In the same year, I also founded one of

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  my own american anti slavery society.

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  A couple years later, in 1847, I held speeches with

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  Frederick Frederick Douglass, a freed slave and the alleghenies.

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  We held over 40 speeches in total.

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  I also renounced church and state and embrace doctrines of

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  christian perfectionism, which meant I supported abolition women's right and

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  non resistance.

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  I led to no union with slaveholders, which is a

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  demand for peaceful northern secession from a slaveholding south.

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  Some political impacts I've had were helping the Newburyport Free

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  Press. The Newburyport Free Press was one of the main

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  source for the Federalist Party.

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  I also disagreed with the constitution's viewpoint of slavery, which

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  created some conflict, but in the end, this helped me

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  reach Michael socially and culturally.

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  I started my own newspaper which brought more awareness to

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  slavery and anti slavery.

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  I created multiple abolition movements and social clubs which helped

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  me reach my goal.

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  Also, I denounce people who were pro slavery.

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  Yeah,