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On May 31, 1843, William Lloyd Garrison, the famous abolitionist, proclaimed that slaves are not the property of their masters. He argued that God never made one human being to be owned by another and encouraged slaves to escape from the plantations on which they were confined. 

Through his newspaper, The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison opposed slavery for 35 years. The policy of the paper was established in the first issue with Garrison's editorial "To the Public", in which he stated that he would "strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population". 

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a journalist who helped to lead the successful campaign against slavery in the United States. In 1830, he started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator; its first issue carried the author's editorial, "To the Public", in which he contended for the immediate enfranchisement of the slave population. "No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery" is an address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, in 1854 where he called for an immediate end to slavery....

In this essay, William Lloyd Garrison protests against the Dred Scott decision, against the infamous Fugitive Slave Law, and against all unjust and oppressive enactments, and especially against the existence of the slave system in the South. He reiterates the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence and calls for their practical enforcement throughout the land. 

“Truisms” by the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison consists of a list of hypocritical ideas about slavery. For Garrison, earlier writers had been too lenient condemning slavery. This is a unique way of showing how slavery is wrong and immoral in multiple ways. 

In 1845, William Lloyd Garrison published this essay in his newspaper The Liberator. He stated that the rights of man are inherent and undeniable and called for Northern secession from the Union: "By the dissolution of the Union we shall give the finishing blow to the slave system.” 

"No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery" is an address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854. Garrison called for an immediate end to slavery and for all citizens to support this cause. 

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a prominent abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He referred to slavery as "a gangrene preying upon our vitals" and as a curse that is debasing in its effect. He called for the liberation of those who were subjected in hopeless bondage and to crush the vampire of slavery that was feeding upon the lifeblood of the Republic.