id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2610 William Lloyd Garrison - Wikipedia .html text/html 8232 926 62 He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States. Garrison co-founded The Liberator to espouse his abolitionist views, and in 1832 he organized out of its readers the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. At the age of 25, Garrison joined the anti-slavery movement, later crediting the 1826 book of Presbyterian Reverend John Rankin, Letters on Slavery, for attracting him to the cause.[4] For a brief time, he became associated with the American Colonization Society, an organization that promoted the "resettlement" of free blacks to a territory (now known as Liberia) on the west coast of Africa. ^ Henry Mayer, "All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery", (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), 32. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2610.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2610.txt