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What was William Lloyd Garrison's strategy for promoting abolition and why did Frederick Douglass and other black abolitionists reject that strategy?

What strategies did they prefer instead and why?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Douglass ended his association with Garrison, the man who persuaded him to join the abolitionist cause, in 1851. They couldn't agree on whether a separate "black-oriented" newspaper was essential, or, more crucially, whether slavery should be eliminated violently.

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