Sim - Articles from The Liberator

The national hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, born in Caracas. Having travelled in Europe, he played the most prominent part in the wars of independence in N South America. In 1819, he was proclaimed and became president of the vast Republic of Colombia (modern Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador), which was finally liberated in 1822. He then took charge of the last campaigns of independence in Peru (1824). In 1826 he returned N to face growing political dissension. He resigned office (1830), and died on his way into exile.

The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper, founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of January 1, 1866. Garrison set the tone for the paper in his famous open letter "To the Public" in the first issue:

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 rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.

—William Lloyd Garrison, "To the Public", The Liberator, January 1, 1831

The Liberator faced harsh resistance from several state legislatures: for example, distributors of the paper were subject to a $1,500 (25957.20 2005 dollars) fine in South Carolina.

The Liberator continued for three decades from its founding through the end of the American Civil War. 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.

Articles from The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison (January 1, 1831): To the Public, Garrison's introductory column for The Liberator William Lloyd Garrison (January 8, 1831): Truisms (January 8, 1831) William Lloyd Garrison (January 8, 1831): Walker's Appeal William Lloyd Garrison (September 3, 1831): The Insurrection, Garrison's reaction to the news of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia William Lloyd Garrison (December 29, 1832): On the Constitution and the Union William Lloyd Garrison (January 10, 1845): The American Union William Lloyd Garrison (September 28, 1838): Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the Boston Peace Convention (September 18, 1838), reprinted in The Liberator William Lloyd Garrison (June 28, 1839): Abolition at the Ballot Box William Lloyd Garrison (January 10, 1845): The American Union William Lloyd Garrison (October 28, 1859): The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry, Garrison's first public comments on John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry William Lloyd Garrison (December 16, 1859): John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance, the transcript of a speech given for a meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, on December 2, 1859, the day that John Brown was hanged William Lloyd Garrison (May 3, 1861): The War—Its Cause and Cure William Lloyd Garrison (December 29, 1865): Valedictory: The Final Number of The Liberator, Garrison's closing column for The Liberator