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Garrison (WILLIAM LLOYD an American)

WILLIAM LLOYD, an American reformer; born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1805. He was apport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1805. He was apbecame a compositor on the Newburyport "Herald." In 1827 he became editor of the "National Philanthropist," the first American temperance journal, and afterward on a journal in support of the election of John Quincy Adams. With the paper called the "Genius of Universal of slave-traders leading to his imprisonof slave-traders leading to his imprisonment for libel. On his release he commenced lecturing in Boston, started the "Liberator" (1831). In 1832 appeared his "Thoughts on African Colonization," and in the same year he established the American Anti-Slavery Society. He subsequently visited England, where he was welcomed by Wilberforce, Brougham, Buxton, etc. In 1835 he was saved with difficulty from a Boston mob; but his principles made steady progress till 1865, when the Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved with its work accomplished. A volume of sonnets (1843) and one of selections (1852) bear his name. died in New York City, May 24, 1879.

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