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George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release led Massachusetts to declare that state officials could not take part in the recapture of a fugitive slave.
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In 1841, Frederick Douglass agreed to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for the abolitionism of slavery.
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After having escaped to New York, Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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In September of 1838, escaped slave Frederick Douglass and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket.
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In October 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston.
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The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature — and created a backlash.
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On a trip to Kentucky in 1833, Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed slavery up close.
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William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his abolitionist newspaper on January 1, 1831.
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Frederick Douglass named his abolitionist newspaper The North Star after the icon followed by escaped slaves on their journeys to freedom.
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Douglass's first experience of slavery — watching his aunt being brutally beaten — would haunt him to his grave.
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At 22, William Lloyd Garrison knew that the abolition of slavery was the cause that would give meaning to his life.
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On July 4, 1854 in Massachusetts, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the constitution.
