During the pre-Civil War era, William Lloyd Garrison steered abolition to a more radical approach through his writings in his newspaper: The Liberator, his creation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and his extreme anti-Union ideas, which led to a schism in the abolitionist movement. His actions played a major role in the division of the abolitionist movement, and thus helped express slavery as a central ethical issue.
William Lloyd Garrison created an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator which advocated rights and education for African Americans, his writings exposed the abolitionist cause. Garrison meant it to be the voice for those who had no way of speaking up. Garrison’s newspaper became the main means for advertising and …show more content…
Garrison regarded the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, and thus he strongly held that the Union should be dispelled. Despite this, at the time many abolitionists were in favor of the Union. He claimed that free northern states and slave states should be disjointed. Garrison strongly opposed the appropriation of Texas and was deeply against the Mexican American War. Subsequently, in 1847, Garrison and ex-slave Frederick Douglass created a sequence of anti-Union speeches. A few years later, 1854 exhibited a crucial year in the abolitionist movement with the adoption of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Act formed the terrains of Nebraska and Kansas and revoked the previous 1820 Missouri Compromise, which had formerly controlled the allowance of slavery. Inhabitants of those ranges, could now choose through Popular Sovereignty whether they desired to allow slavery there. Garrison considered it to be a dull agreement for the northern states. Ultimately, the plan failed when both people who were pro-slavery and abolitionists travelled to Kansas to vote on the outcome of slavery
William Lloyd Garrison created an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator which advocated rights and education for African Americans, his writings exposed the abolitionist cause. Garrison meant it to be the voice for those who had no way of speaking up. Garrison’s newspaper became the main means for advertising and …show more content…
Garrison regarded the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, and thus he strongly held that the Union should be dispelled. Despite this, at the time many abolitionists were in favor of the Union. He claimed that free northern states and slave states should be disjointed. Garrison strongly opposed the appropriation of Texas and was deeply against the Mexican American War. Subsequently, in 1847, Garrison and ex-slave Frederick Douglass created a sequence of anti-Union speeches. A few years later, 1854 exhibited a crucial year in the abolitionist movement with the adoption of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Act formed the terrains of Nebraska and Kansas and revoked the previous 1820 Missouri Compromise, which had formerly controlled the allowance of slavery. Inhabitants of those ranges, could now choose through Popular Sovereignty whether they desired to allow slavery there. Garrison considered it to be a dull agreement for the northern states. Ultimately, the plan failed when both people who were pro-slavery and abolitionists travelled to Kansas to vote on the outcome of slavery