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What did William Lloyd Garrison do for the abolitionist movement?

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In 1830 he started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. In 1832 he helped form the New England Antislavery Society. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document.
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Answer: He founded an abolitionist newspaper and organized an abolitionist society.

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William Lloyd Garrison was a member of white society in Massachusetts. He worked for a newspaper, the Newburyport Herald. He then started his own paper, which was an abolitionist paper, called The Liberator. He also was organizer of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society, which later expanded into the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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