Question

William Lloyd Garrison: a. attracted little support from fellow abolitionists, but historians have discovered his importance. b. began publishing his newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, in 1831, but moved it to friendlier territory two years later. c. secretly financed Nat Turner’s Rebellion. d. suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery. e. published American Slavery as It Is, an influential pamphlet./105472297/test

Answer 1

Answer: d. suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

Explanation:

By the late 1830s, William Lloyd Garrison had concluded that the U.S. Constitution was pro-slavery, therefore the Union should be dissolved. He proposed that abolitionists should work for the secession of free states from the Union, so Free states and slave states could be made separate.

Known as “disunionism,” his position created a fracture in the abolitionist community.