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- adjective Of or pertaining to William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879),
American abolitionist ,journalist , and social reformer.
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I called very seldom, when I was in Philadelphia, in the "Garrisonian" antislavery office.
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar
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Or, to take another libertarian whose views are somewhat closer to mine, J.R. Hummel has produced a lot of really excellent libertarian historical work that, among other things, takes slavery absolutely as seriously as the topic deserves, and aligns himself quite explicitly with the radical Garrisonian abolitionists.
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It distinguishes the Garrisonian, radical political abolitionist, and moderate antislavery perspectives on ending slavery.
Archive 2008-10-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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It distinguishes the Garrisonian, radical political abolitionist, and moderate antislavery perspectives on ending slavery.
Tsesis on Antislavery Constitutionalism Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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For Frederick Douglass to make persistent attacks on Garrisonian abolition as passé—as a phase of moral education through which the movement had inevitably traveled en route to more enlightened forms of practical agitation—was more than a continuation of their personal feud; it was the old Liberty Party idea that a token candidacy offered a greater opportunity for moral agitation than did the prophetic apostleship of Garrison.
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For Frederick Douglass to make persistent attacks on Garrisonian abolition as passé—as a phase of moral education through which the movement had inevitably traveled en route to more enlightened forms of practical agitation—was more than a continuation of their personal feud; it was the old Liberty Party idea that a token candidacy offered a greater opportunity for moral agitation than did the prophetic apostleship of Garrison.
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Her ideal was the Garrisonian doctrine, "No Union with Slaveholders" and
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At heart she was a nonvoting Garrisonian abolitionist and would not support a political party which in any way sanctioned slavery.
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Thus she was assured of a brilliant array of speakers, for the Garrisonian abolitionists were sincere advocates of woman's rights.
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Rochester, of "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces," [81] he was expressing only what Garrisonian abolitionists, like Susan, always had recognized.
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