Question

In the first issue of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison wrote: "I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard."
Describe how this reflects the time period in which he was writing.


Your answer should be at least 3 sentences.

Answer 1

Garrison was a journalistic crusader. He advocated the emancipation slaves where he gained a national reputation for being radical in American abolitionists. Garrison said those words the time when a man whose house was on fire and wanted to give a moderate alarm for the man to rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher. Garrison went ahead and to say and the mother to extricate her babe from the fire.