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Antislavery in the United States 1776-1865:
A Pathfinder

William Lloyd Garrison

Books - Newspapers - Websites

Books

Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery.
New York: St. Martin Press, 1998
This work is the most recent biography published. Mayer’s fondness for Garrison is apparent in this book. The author admits his bias. However, All on Fire is a valuable secondary source for anyone interested in Garrison.

William Lloyd Garrison’s Newspapers

Genius of Universal Emancipation (Mount Pleasant, OH; Greenville, TN; Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD) 1821-1830.
Benjamin Lundy’ anti-slavery newspaper in which Garrison served as assistant editor from 1829-1830 in Baltimore.

The Liberator (Boston, MA) 1831-1865.
The infamous newspaper started by Garrison to persuade the public to oppose slavery.

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Websites

The Antislavery Literature Project
This digital archive contains historical and contemporary accounts of slavery. One will find a wealth of material regarding slavery in the United States, including some authored by Garrison. This site is maintained by the English Department of Arizona State University and the EServer at Iowa State University’s English Department.

Carr, Glynis. Index to The Liberty Bell.
The Liberty Bell is an American Anti-Slavery publication containing essays and poetry from various abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison.

CivilWar@Smithsonian
The CivilWar@Smithsonian website highlights Smithsonian items pertaining to Civil War history. This website briefly covers William Lloyd Garrison’s involvement in the abolition movement. Below are links to four pieces of art with Garrison as the subject:

Fair Use Repository
The Fair Use Repository transcribes electronically documents that are in the public domain. Various Liberator articles authored by Garrison may be read in this website.

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection
This digital collection from the Library of Congress contains primary resources pertaining to slavery and antislavery. Several pamphlets authored by Garrison are available to view in full text.

Gilder Lehrman Center Bibliography of Online Documents
This resource lists online primary sources pertaining to slavery. Included are speeches and correspondence of individuals regarding their thoughts about slavery. Several letters written by Garrison have been transcribed and are available to read in this collection. To access such documents, one must browse the entire collection, or browse by author, date, subject, or document type.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
This digital repository makes available collections from numerous research libraries. Use the Catalog for locating items by and about William Lloyd Garrison.

Internet Archive
This digital library provides a gateway to online documents by/about Garrison.

The Liberator Files
This site maintained by Horace Sheldon contains articles from The Liberator.

Making of America (MOA) - Joint venture between Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
This digital library contains scanned images of US primary and secondary sources from 1850 to 1877. A good amount of material pertaining to Garrison are available within MOA. The Cornell version focuses on popular journals of the time, but also contains the War of the Rebellion series. The University of Michigan version focuses on books/monographs.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
The Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections maintains this excellent resource containing antislavery material. One may search or browse this website for digitized pamphlets authored by William Lloyd Garrison.

UMass Amherst DuBois Library - SCUA - Antislavery Pamphlets
This digital library contains pamphlets that demonstrate the various points of view New Englanders had regarding slavery from the Revolution to the Civil War. Included within this collection is An Address, Delivered Before the Free People of Color, in Philadelphia, New-York, and Other Cities, During the Month of June, 1831 by Garrison. This excellent resource is maintained by the Digital Collections of the University of Massachusetts Amherst DuBois Library Special Collections and University Archives [SCUA].