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Blogs Liberty and Power Three from the Liberator

Aug 26, 2012

Three from the Liberator

by Liberty and Power

William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator was the premier abolitionist journal of the antebellum u.s. I’ve just posted three pieces from The Liberator: an anti-voting piece by Garrison, an anti-slavery piece by Lysander Spooner, and a report on an 1858 reform convention.