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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison established The Liberator, official newspaper of the antislavery movement, in 1831. After the American Civil War, Garrison campaigned to promote free trade and worked to achieve suffrage for women and justice for Native Americans. He also worked to establish Prohibition and outlaw consumption of tobacco in the United States.
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Appears in these articles:
Abolitionist Movement; Garrison, William Lloyd; Douglass, Frederick; African American History
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