GARRISON, William Lloyd. - The new 'reign of terror' in the slaveholding states, for 1859-60.

New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1860.Sm.8vo. Original printed wrappers (dam.). 144 pp.Anti-Slavery Tracts. No.4. New series. - . William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 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. Sabin 53392; Afro-Americana 4020.

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