On December 10, 1805, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a man who strongly shared his views about the immorality of slavery, was born. William Lloyd Garrison, a prominent white abolitionist, as well as a journalist, spent thr early years of his childhood showing sympathy toward the struggles of the oppressed people for freedom. Garrison was able to prove that he thought slavery should be abolished, when he joined the Abolition Movement. He began to be associated and strongly agreed with an organization that believed free black should immigrate to Africa, which was known as The American Colonization Society. Garrison believed that the society was looking for blacks to be happy and free. Soon he was disproved. He found out that most members had no intention of freeing black slaves, but instead their goal was to reduce the number of free blacks in their country, yet helping to defend the institution of slavery. He discarded the society, and became co-editor of a paper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, created in Maryland by Benjamin Lundy. Lundy believed in the gradual emancipation of slavery, to avoid chaos, and at the time Garrison agreed.
Nearly a year later, Garrison published his own anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator, when he realized that instantaneous and absolute emancipation was necessary. The Liberator soon became one the most significant, influential journals in the United States. The Liberator was based on the views of the Declaration of Independence that slaves were Americans, and they are entitled to life, liberty, and pursuit happiness, and that all men are created equal. Being strong in his faith, Garrison saw slavery as a sin in the eyes of God. He was strongly persuaded that moral force should abolish slavery. Through the Liberator, as well as his speeches, he set up a campaign for the convenient...