“It is not three years since I lifted up the banner of emancipation in this city, for the rescue of perishing millions, whose hire is kept back by fraud, whose…
Category: <span>Liberator</span>
Notice that office of Liberator is removed from Merchants Hall , to No. 31, 3d story Cornhill, over bookstore of Benjamin Muzzey
Includes a notice of the dissolution of the Copartnership of Knapp & Garrison, “by mutual consent”. With an introduction to the new volume, Garrison recites some the history of abolition,…
Under a column, Concerns of Liberator, as it nears the end of its sixth volume, the editor Indicates that expenditures always exceed subscriptions, and that there are many “patrons who…
Here is an item from the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, “To the Public”, signed by Francis Jackson, President, Sept 5, 1837. At a meeting of the…
A committee composed of James Forten, Jr., Jacob C. White, and James McCrummill, writing for these Colored Citizens sends to the Liberator a copy of resolutions, adopted Oct 23, by…
There is a note that “clerical and sectarian” haters of the paper are circulating rumors of its pending failure, including statements that it lost 200 subscribers on January 1st. The response…
Under Refuge of Oppression , and labeled, Polite Letters from the South, one letter, from Somerton, VA, tells the Editor: “You can remain in Boston, and preach your doctrines, but…
Henry Grew, from Philadelphia, sends a long explanation of why he wants the editor to “erase my name from your list of subscribers”.
The editor comments on the beginning of his work, recalling his work with Benjamin Lundy, and indicates that since he started his work at twenty-three years of age, “we are…
March 11, 1842 Tells of a man killed on the Providence railroad, near the Roxbury toll-gate. Says he was sitting on the railroad when a car passed over him, “cutting…
February 17, 1843 An ad for a compound which will prevent baldness, scurvy, and dandruff, and will also curl the hair.
August 8, 1845 Notice of the massacre of one thousand Arabs by the French
July 14, 1848 Garrison indicates that he will seek help from Dr. Ruggles, at his Water Cure Infirmary, at Northampton, and will be absent for about three to four month. …
November 10, 1848 Garrison announces his return to the editorship, praises the “ability, industry, and fidelity of Quincy, and then says that the water cure treatment has improved his health…
January 5, 1849 “We begin our Nineteenth Volume with a new typographical dress — and with a determination to make the Liberator the enlightened, faithful and intrepid advocate of Liberty,…
May 31, 1850 Calling attention to the new head of the paper, there is a description of its content and meaning, including “a central medallion representing Jesus, the Liberator…”
January 3, 1851 “It is impossible to describe the emotion we feel in commencing our third decade as the editor of the Liberator. The contrast in the state of public…
January 31, 1851 Gold watch presented to Garrison; the inscription: “Presented by George Thompson, M.P., (On behalf of himself and others,) to William Lloyd Garrison, the intrepid and uncompromising friend…
January 2, 1852 “We enter upon the twenty-second volume of the Liberator. Twenty-one years, therefore, have been completed by us, in advocacy of the sacred claims of our enslaved brethren,…
July 16, 1852 The Anti-Slavery office has been robbed. Fifty dollars is gone, more than three-fourths of which belonged to the Liberator. It is a “loss we are not well…
January 7, 1853 As he begins the twenty-third volume of the paper, Garrison includes here one letter from a person who cancels his subscription, and two new subscriptions. One of…
January 6, 1854 “What disclosure have been made as to the heart of this nation toward the oppressed, as to the position of the Government in regard to their enslavement,…
January 5, 1855 “We enter upon our new volume with undiminished zeal, courage and hope – warmly proferring toall our friends and patrons the loving salutations and wishes of the…
February 22, 1856 An ad urging ladies to utilize the services of this saloon, at 365 Washington Street, run by Madame Carteaux
February 29, 1856 Here the editor cites an objection which has criticized the inclusion of this column in the paper. The editor recalls how this “department of infamy” had been…
April 25, 1856 “A little girl named Trask, connected with one of the primary schools in East Boston, died a few days since from excess of exertion in jumping rope…
September 12, 1856 Notice that the city will have a holiday on the day when the statue of Franklin is to be “inaugurated”, in front of City Hall, on the…
December 26, 1856 “We shall commence the new volume with a new and handsome typographical dress, not because of an increasing patronage, (for our circulation is still very inadequate), but…
January 9, 1857 From the Boston Telegraph, is acknowledgment of the Liberator’s 27th volume. It quotes Garrison as saying that ‘We have never yet published, nor omitted to publish, a…
February 6, 1857 The editor indicates that he will be traveling for two or three weeks, and that the paper will be “under the supervision” of Charles K. Whipple. He…
August 26, 1859 The Aug 26 edition includes that it is Vol xxix, No. 34 , whole number 1606 The Sep 2 edition includes that it is Vol xxix, No.…
September 2, 1859 C. C. Burleigh writes to Garrison, calling attention to an error in numbering of the paper. The paper for Nov. 12th, 1858, is numbered 1456, the next…
December 30, 1859 A notice that there will be an additional edition of the paper, on December 31, which include some of the “immense mass of matter ” in regard…
January 6, 1860 “With this number we commence the thirtieth volume of the Liberator. It has been a long, desperate, eventful, ‘irrepressible conflict’ with the most ferocious and satanic system…
May 11, 1860 The office of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, and of the Liberator, have been moved from 21 Cornhill to the Washington building, 221 Washington Street,, directly opposite Franklin…
June 15, 1860 A single, two-sided sheet EXTRA edition, with focus on the speech by Charles Sumner, “The Barbarism of Slavery”, addressing a Bill for the Admission of Kansas as…
January 4, 1861 “We commence a new decade with the same confidence in the principles we espouse, the same assurance of success in the cause we advocate, that we felt…
January 11, 1861 “The Editor has been too ill to be able to give any attention to the Liberator this week.”
March 22, 1861 Here is a letter from Garrison, to John S. Rarey, Esq. The editor affirms a recent speech in which Rarey has spoken about the humane treatment of…
March 27, 1863 A letter to Garrison, includes two dollars, and a request for back copies of the Liberator. The subscriber assures Garrison that copies have been read by Officers…
January 1, 1864 “We begin this number, the Thirty-fourth volume of the Liberator, and, in wishing our readers one and all a Happy New Year, take this opportunity to thank…
June 30, 1865 “As the Liberator is to terminate its publication at the close of its present volume, we are glad to be able to commend to its friends and…