William Lloyd Garrison's Views on Abolition, Gradual Enmancipation, Colonization and Violence

Garrison’s was a person who took in consideration of the so-called free man’s land, but it really wasn’t according to him. America was supposed to be the land of the free and equal opportunities, but it was far from that seeing as how slavery kept African American’s in chattel bondage. In my essay I will reveal how this free African American made a change in a slave’s life, fighting for their freedom and also free African American’s rights as well. I will address Garrison views on how he looked upon on abolition movement, gradual emancipation, colonization and violence.

Garrison believed that the abolition of slavery should be immediate without the pressure and blood shed of innocent lives that had already suffered enough. He declared that it was a sin and thought that slavery went against the principles of the declaration of independence and the moral humanity of mankind. Moreover he thought slavery was immoral in natured and it should be no compromising in its end. He was also relentless in his drive in the belief of human equality and felt that slavery was also evil. Garrison also believed that white and African American slaves could not be distinguished in the eyes of Gods so it should have been the same in the laws of the land. He also challenged the institution in the north and the anti-slavery movement in the south, he did that because neither party had a main objective of racial equality. Slavery should have been abolished immediately. Emancipated African American’s should have received instructions on how to assimilate into the America social order. Garrison’s views on colonization was that the American colonization society was in favor of the Negro movement. Majority of the whites advocated that they wanted to rid all ...

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In conclusion, Garrison used the Liberator as a platform for his relentless pressure to the south for a change in its value system and viewed the region as a target. He looked at the north as a region that was not committed to fully changing the system of slavery but knew that he was in a unique position to be heard there. By Garrison being steadfast and holding to the principle of immediate emancipation he could very well have been the spark that ignited a revolt to end slavery and inequality. Ideals and principles are not always held in such high regard but Garrisons ability to use them and not turn from those attributes even in the face of death and to stand on an island made him special to a cause looking for a leader and a scapegoat to a group looking for someone to blame for a sense of rebellion from those they oppressed.