The Life of William Lloyd Garrison
Excerpts from the Liberator
After the Liberator
Background on The Liberator
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This place was where William Lloyd Garrison was born

Newburyport, Massachusetts

100

"The King of the South" was a ballad in an issue 1845 whose writer goes by this anonymous title  

A Yankee

100

What national historic landmark related to WLG is located in Boston

WLG's house also known as "Freedom's Cottage"
100

The Liberator was located in this place

Boston

200

His first apprenticeship was with this newspaper  

The Herald 

200

 "What do many of the professed enemies of slavery mean, by heaping all their reproaches upon the  south and asserting that the crime of the oppression is nit national?"

1883

200

After the War WLG continued to fight for these causes

Woman's rights, anti-slavery and Native American rights

200

The first issue of the Liberator was published this year

1831

300

This was the first paper WLG owned

The Newburyport Free Press

300

"Constitutionality of Separated Schools" was the title of an article on this court case. 

"Argument of Charles Sumner, Esq. in the case of Sarah C. Roberts vs. the City of Boston -- before Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Dec. 4, 1849"

300

The effect of the Liberator led to the formation of the society

The New England Anti-Slavery Society 


300

In the first year of publication, the Liberator had this many subscribers

300

400

WLG's partner and co-editor of the "Genius"

Benjamin Lundy 

400

In a issue from 1959 the Editors urged readers to sign a petition for this

A law to prevent the capture and return of fugitive slaves.
400

The Liberator ended when this amendment was ratified

The 13th

400

The co-editor of the paper was this man

Isaac Knapp

500

This state put up a $5,000 reward for WLG's capture because of the nature of his views 

Georgia

500

In the last issue of the Liberator from 1865 it was claimed that there were this many schools  

53

500

WLG died in 1879 from this disease

Chronic kidney disease
500

The motto of the Liberator was this

"Our country is the world-our countrymen are mankind 

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