LIBERATOR. v. 1-35; Jan. 1, 1831 -Dec. 29, 1865. Boston, 1831-1865.

35 v.

Edited by William Lloyd Garrison.

Founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, the Liberator was the greatest of all the anti-slavery magazines and aroused much bitter antagonism. This Boston weekly has immense historical importance and no small literary value. It was to be an immediate-abolition paper, to support peace and temperance, and to contain a fair proportion of literary miscellany and news. Opposition to colonization occupied many pages; however, Garrison did approve of boycotting the products of slavery and also advocated disunion. He promised his support to women's rights as early as 1837. A department called "The Refuge of Oppression" quoted from the worst of the fire-eating southern editorials, and small woodcuts illustrating slavery scenes appeared occasionally. John Rankin's "Letters on American Slavery" were printed serially in the second volume. After the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution was adopted, the Liberator was felt to have served its purpose and was discontinued.

APS II, Reels 391-399