The fiery editor of the "Liberator" helped shape the destiny of a
divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with
denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive
Slave Act, a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves hack to
angry masters but threatened the liberty of all free blacks,
Despite such provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance
during this period, though he continued to advocate the
emancipation of slaves.
Garrison's writings also reflect the interests of his times. He
engaged in lively correspondence with fellow countrymen Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Parker,
and Stephen S. Foster. In a long letter to Louis Kossuth, he
challenges that Hungarian patriot's stand of opposing tyranny in
Europe while ignoring slavery in America.
Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the
western United States and of family affairs back home in Boston,
Garrison's letters of this decade make a distinctive contribution
to antebellum life and thought.
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