Blog Post #4 - The Liberator EOTO Response

After listening to the presentation about The Liberator, I learned a few things: 

The Liberator was created by a man named William Lloyd Garrison. He was born in December of 1805 and lived in both Newburyport, Massachusetts and New York City. During this time, he was a famous journalist and a passionate abolitionist who deeply cared about equal rights for all. 

One of his big passions was trying to help end slavery and make a change to the injustices of inequality. The Liberator was a newspaper that had many articles that fought for freedom of slaves as well as general equality among people. Most of his subscribers for The Liberator were free African Americans and fellow abolitionists who wanted to also fight. Many of these people believed in his cause to end slavery and therefore spread the paper more.

The main focus of Garrison's papers was to form a platform for other abolitionists to speak on equality, slavery, and politics. Each issue also had a special illustration. The first published article from the Liberator was on January 1, 1831 and the paper survived due to the amount of black subscribers to it.

All of its editing and publishing was done in Boston and so The Liberator encouraged black voters in Boston to vote. This helped many African Americans to gain trust in white abolitionists and also encouraged them to further their education in order to read the paper. 

All in all, the Liberator made an impact in the way that many different people viewed others and it helped shape the way inequality and slavery was handled in the US.