Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Analysis

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During the beginning of the presentation she mention a little about the prominent American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. He was the founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the founder of the abolitionist newspaper: The Liberator in 1831. William Lloyd Garrison spoke up against the wrong doing of slavery and for the rights of America’s black inhabitants. With the used and the influence of The Liberator newspaper, he urged for the emancipation of all black slaves. William Lloyd Garrison believes that all blacks would become one with the white American citizens in the American society, he stated that “… in time, all blacks would be equal in every way to the country's white citizens. They, too, were Americans and entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." (Garrison) She also talked about another abolitionist named Frederick Douglass. At a young age, Frederick Douglass manage to educate himself despite the difficulties and challenges he faced in life him he was younger. He used his knowledge to encourage, …show more content…

On July 16th, 1935 a black man named Reuban Stacy knocked on Mrs. Marion Jones’s door in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She let him in and he asked for a drink, afterwards she screamed and threating him with a knife until he ran off. He was arrested and handed off to Broward County Sheriff’s Department to Sheriff Walter Clark, where he denied attacking Marion Jones. Sheriff Walter Clark took Stacy to the house of Marion Jones where the children shouted “there he is.”, without the use of a police lineup. On the way to Dale County Jail, a group of men including Sheriff Clark removed Stacy from the deputies’ car and took him to a location not far from the Home of the Jones’. A clothesline wire that belonged to the Jones’ was used to hang Stacy on a Pine