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The Liberator (newspaper)
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(File:1837 Liberator Cornhill Boston.png|alt=Liberator issue. Depicting African Americans next to a lynching tree.|thumb|An issue of The Liberator depicting African Americans next to a lynching tree)Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of December 29, 1865.{{citation |title=Boston Directory |year=1831 |url=https://archive.org/stream/stimpsonsbostond3132adam#page/4/mode/1up |quote=Garrison & Knapp, editors and proprietors Liberator, 10 Merchants Hall, Congress Street }} Although its circulation was only about 3,000, and three-quarters of subscribers (in 1834) were African Americans,Ripley, C. Peter (1991). The Black Abolitionist Papers: Vol. III: The United States, 1830â1846, p. 9. UNC Press. {{ISBN|0807819263}}. the newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States. Garrison set the tone for the paper in his famous open letter "To the Public" in the first issue:(File:Appeal by William Garrison.jpg|thumb|Fundraising appeal of William Garrison, 1834){{quotation|... Assenting to the "self-evident truth" maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rightsâamong which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. In Park-street Church, on the Fourth of July, 1829, in an address on slavery, I unreflectingly assented to the popular but pernicious doctrine of gradual abolition. I seize this opportunity to make a full and unequivocal recantation, and thus publicly to ask pardon of my God, of my country, and of my brethren the poor slaves, for having uttered a sentiment so full of timidity, injustice and absurdity. A similar recantation, from my pen, was published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation at Baltimore, in September, 1829. My conscience is now satisfied.WEB,weblink The Liberator, Library of Congress, March 3, 2020, March 3, 2020,weblink live, I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen;âbut urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnestâI will not equivocateâI will not excuseâI will not retreat a single inchâAND I WILL BE HEARD. {{nbsp}}...}} Rather than looking to politics to create change, Garrison utilized nonviolent means, such as moral suasion, as his message throughout the newspaper.NEWS,weblink The Liberator {{!, American newspaper|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-05-22|language=en|archive-date=2022-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607210330weblink|url-status=live}}NEWS,weblink Book Review: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, by Henry Mayer, The Independent Institute, 2017-05-22, 2015-09-20,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150920145038weblink">weblink live, Garrison felt that slavery was a moral issue and used his way of writing to appeal to the morality of his readers as an attempt to influence them into changing their morally questionable ways. For example, "No Union with Slave-Holders" was a slogan utilized for weeks at a time throughout the newspaper's publication, advocating that the North should leave the Union.(File:The Final "Liberator," known to the world as "Valedictory".png|thumb|240px|Garrison celebrates 13th amendment.)The Liberator continued for three decades from its founding through the end of the American Civil War. It had black columnists and reporters.BOOK, Hayden, Robert C., African-Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years, 1992, Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 0890730830, 112, Garrison ended the newspaper's run with a valedictory column at the end of 1865, when the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States. It was succeeded by The Nation.The Anti-Slavery Reporter, August 1, 1865, p. 187.Women's rights advocacy
Between January 7, 1832 and May 4, 1833, the Liberator published six articles by Maria W. Stewart, an abolitionist and one of the first American women to lecture before mixed-race and mixed-gender audiences.JOURNAL, Henderson, Christina, 2013, Sympathetic Violence: Maria Stewart's Antebellum Vision of African American Resistance,weblink MELUS, 38, 4, 52â75, 10.1093/melus/mlt051, 24570017, 0163-755X, The Liberator also became an avowed women's rights newspaper when the prospectus for its 1838 issue declared that as the paper's objective was "to redeem woman as well as man from a servile to an equal condition," it would support "the rights of woman to their utmost extent."Liberator, December 15, 1837. In January and February 1838, the Liberator published Sarah Grimké's "Letters on the Province of Woman", and later that year published them as a book, to another of Garrison and Knapp's projects Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.BOOK, Sarah, Grimké, Sarah Grimké,weblink Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman : addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, Isaac Knapp, 1838, During the following decades, the Liberator promoted women's rights by publishing editorials, petitions, convention calls and proceedings, speeches, legislative action, and other material advocating women's suffrage, equal property rights, and women's educational and professional equality. The Liberator{{'}}s printers, Isaac Knapp, James Brown Yerrinton (1800â1866) and James Manning Winchell Yerrinton (1825â1893), and Robert Folger Wallcut (1797â1884), printed many of the women's rights tracts of the 1850s.Inspiration among abolitionists
File:1850 Liberator HammattBillings design.png|thumb|right|1850 Liberator masthead, designed by Hammatt BillingsHammatt BillingsThe Liberator inspired abolitionist Angelina Grimké to publicly join the abolitionist movement. She sent a letter to William Lloyd Garrison recalling her experiences as a member of an upper class, white, slaveholding family. Angelina Grimké's letter to William Lloyd Garrison was soon after published in The Liberator.WEB,weblink Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters, Berkin, Carol, 2017-05-24, 2017-12-04,weblink dead, Frederick Douglass was at first inspired by The Liberator. As he commented upon in his first issue of The North Star, Douglass felt that it was necessary for African Americans, such as himself, to speak out about their own experiences with injustice. He claimed that those that experienced injustice were the ones that must demand justice.NEWS,weblink The North Star {{!, American newspaper|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-05-15|language=en|archive-date=2017-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911213119weblink|url-status=live}} Soon after, Douglass began writing his own abolitionist newspaper, The North Star.WEB,weblink Abolitionist Movement {{!, HistoryNet|website=www.historynet.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-15|archive-date=2014-12-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231064656weblink|url-status=live}} By 1851 Douglass broke bitterly with Garrison and now worked for abolition and equality through the U.S. Constitution and political system.David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) pp. 216â220.in 1836, five years after he agreed to be The Liberator's agent in Rhode Island, Alfred Niger helped to found the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, one of only two Black men in the entire organization.WEB, Martin, CJ, August 1, 2019, The "Mustard Seed": Providence's Alfred Niger, Antebellum Black Voting Rights Activist,weblink SmallStateBigHistory.com, August 10, 2021,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20210810144555weblink">weblink live,Resistance
What changed The Liberator from a small abolitionist organ to a national one was the attention paid to it in the South. Southern papers reprinted and editorialized its articles and announcements, thus bringing them further to the attention of Northern readers and editors.BOOK, Thomas, John L., The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, 1963,weblink 66, Little, Brwon And Company, The Liberator faced harsh resistance from several state legislatures and local groups: for example, North Carolina indicted Garrison for felonious acts, and the Vigilance Association of Columbia, South Carolina, offered a reward of $1,500 ({{inflation|US|1500|1840|fmt=eq}}) to those who identified distributors of the paper.WEB,weblink Baltimore Niles Register, Oct. 29, nat-turner, 2021-08-24, 2021-08-24,weblink live, Garrison also faced resistance, even to the point of violence. In 1835, a Boston mob formed with support from local newspapers in resistance to the announcement that George Thompson would speak at the first anniversary meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. The mob, unable to find Thompson, redirected their aggression towards Garrison who was in the society's meeting hall. Eventually escalation of the situation led to destruction of the society's antislavery sign, and even calls to lynch Garrison, around whose neck a piece of rope made into a noose was put. Garrison eventually managed a narrow escape; the mayor put him in the city jail for his protection.BOOK, Mayer, Henry, All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery, 1998, St. Martin's Press, 0312187408, 200â205, 1st, registration,weblinkContents online
- The Liberator full online archives at Fair Use Repository, including archives of full-page scans of all issues from 1831â1865 (Vols. IâXXXV).
- The Liberator Complete Archives at the Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Original copy owned by Garrison and served as the copy of reference at The Liberator officesWEB, The Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831â1865) â Digital Commonwealth,weblink 2020-11-28, www.digitalcommonwealth.org, 2021-01-24,weblink live, .
- The Liberator Files searchable (basic search only) collection maintained by Horace Seldon, which says on its home page that it contains "only a tiny portion of what appeared in the 1,803 editions of the paper".
Garrison's articles
Garrison wrote much of the content. He wrote while typesetting; that is to say, most was not written out on paper first. The following are examples of articles and editorials written by him:- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170905192141weblink">To the Public, Garrison's introductory column, January 1, 1831.
- Truisms, January 8, 1831.
- Walker's Appeal, January 8, 1831.
- The Insurrection, Garrison's reaction to the news of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia, September 3, 1831.
- The Great Crisis!, December 29, 1832, one of Garrison's first explicit condemnations of the Constitution and the Union.
- Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the Boston Peace Convention September 18, 1838, reprinted in The Liberator, September 28, 1838.
- Abolition at the Ballot Box, June 28, 1839.
- The American Union, January 10, 1845.
- American Colorphobia, June 11, 1847.
- On the Dissolution of the Union, June 15, 1855.
- The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry, Garrison's first public comments on John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, October 28, 1859.
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071014204752weblink">John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance, a speech given at a meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, on December 2, 1859, the day that John Brown was hanged, printed December 16, 1859.
- The War â Its Cause and Cure, May 3, 1861.
- Valedictory: The Final Number of The Liberator, Garrison's closing column, December 29, 1865.
See also
- Abolitionist publications
- North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper owned and run by Frederick Douglass.
- Women's suffrage publications
- List of newspapers in Massachusetts
References
{{Reflist}}Bibliography
- Fanuzzi, Robert A. " 'The Organ of an Individual': William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator." Prospects 23 (1998): 107-127.
- Jacobs, Donald M. "William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and Boston's Blacks, 1830-1865." New England Quarterly (1971): 259-277. online
- Nord, David Paul. "Tocqueville, Garrison and the perfection of journalism." Journalism History 13.2 (1986): 56-63. online
- Rohrbach, Augusta. " 'Truth Stranger and Stronger than Fiction': Reexamining William Lloyd Garrisonâs The Liberator." in Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the US Literary Market Place (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2002) pp. 1-27.
- BOOK, Streitmatter, Rodger, Voices of Revolution,weblink limited, Columbia University Press, 2001, New York, 21â35, 0231122497,
- Williams, Cecil B. "Whittier's Relation to Garrison and the 'Liberator'." New England Quarterly (1952): 248-255. online
Primary sources
- Cain, William E. ed. William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (Bedford Books of St. Martinâs Press, 1992)
- Garrison, William Lloyd. Documents of Upheaval: Selections from William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, 1831-1965 (Hill and Wang, 1966).
External links
- The Liberator. Issues digitized by Boston Public Library.
- WEB,weblink The Liberator Files, Horace Seldon's collection and summary, Seldon, Horace, non-searchable PDFs of every issue.
- WEB,weblink The Liberator, LibriVox (public domain audiobooks),
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=The Liberator}}
- WEB,weblink The Liberator, Newspapers.com, (searchable; subscription required)
- WEB,weblink Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters,
- The story of The Liberator is retold in Richard Durham's radio drama "The Liberators (Part I)", a presentation from Destination Freedom
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