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The Liberator & Slavery’s Funeral March (1865)
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in December, 1805. At thirteen years of...
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Feb. 27, 1864: Union Prisoners arrive at Andersonville
The first Union prisoners arrived at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia on February 27, 1864. The Liberator carried a story about the POWs at Andersonville on September 9, 1864:...
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Stop Teaching That Boy! [Georgia in 1832]
This appeared in the April 7, 1832 issue of The Liberator. In addition to its own original articles calling for the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States, William Lloyd Garrison, it’s...
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A Moment in the Decades Long Battle Against American Slavery
When looking back at important social justice movements, it is very easy to lose sight of the duration of the movement. Our eyes jump to key events like the passage of the 14th and 19th amendments...
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Juneteenth & Celebrations of the Emancipation Proclamation
An 1876 textbook for Texas students and general readers, found in our American County Histories collection, identifies the historic event of June 19,1865 in this way: On the 30th of May, Generals...
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