{"id":1490,"date":"2006-08-07T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronseldon.com\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/?page_id=1490"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:24:28","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison&#8217;s Abolitionist Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1490-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Intro.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Intro.mp4\">https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Intro.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Audio introduction by the Author \/ Researcher \/ Collector below.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1490-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/audio\/intro.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/audio\/intro.mp3\">https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/audio\/intro.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"William Lloyd Garrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/PhilaHistoricalSocietyPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"William Lloyd Garrison\" align=\"right\" \/> This is a collection of items which appear in <em>THE LIBERATOR<\/em>, a Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published under the editorship of William Lloyd Garrison, who lived from 1805\u20131879.<\/p>\n<p>The assembled items represent only a tiny portion of what appeared in the 1,803 editions of the paper, published weekly from 1831-1865. . The source of the collection has been Garrison\u2019s copies of <em>THE LIBERATOR<\/em>., access to which has been granted and facilitated by the Boston Public Library, \u00a0Rare Books.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Study of the Abolition Movement, led me to William Lloyd Garrison, and a desire to know him better. I want always to learn more about him, and to learn from him. So I was driven to<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">THE LIBERATOR<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">., to his own copies of the newspaper, where the privilege of touching and turning those pages has brought many surprises and much inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong> HERE IS WHERE TO LOOK<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"William Lloyd Garrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/SmGarrison.jpg\" alt=\"William Lloyd Garrison\" width=\"255\" align=\"left\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/liberator-photo-gallery\/\">Photo Gallery<\/a><\/span><\/strong> &#8212; Over sixty pictures, including persons significant to the Abolition Movement, \u00a0 political cartoons, and places important in Garrison&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/span> &#8212; Over twenty articles by the collector, expressing a personal perspective on Garrison.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/site-directory\/\">The Site Directory<\/a><\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Here you will find Garrison&#8217;s Best Lines\/Headlines, \u00a0a collection of items selected by personal interest, which provide &#8220;snippets&#8221; of items which appeared in the Liberator, and reflect insights into the thoughts of Mr. Garrison as he edited the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Horace Seldon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio introduction by the Author \/ Researcher \/ Collector below. 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