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As the South was uniting to defend and preserve slavery, editor and activist William Lloyd Garrison began to preach a new kind of abolitionism in the North. He was invited to give an address on July 4, 1829, at the Park Street Church in Boston and chose “Dangers to the Nation” as his theme. On July 4, 1829, Garrison walked six blocks from his rooming house to Park Street Church in Boston to deliver an Independence Day oration. He used the patriotic occasion to point out that slavery conflicted with America’s most cherished ideals of liberty, equality, and self-government. Though advocates of colonization often spoke of slavery using religious terminology, they saw the institution as basically a political, social, or economic evil. Garrison and others who applied the logic of the revival to slavery saw it as sin. The attendant secular evils were but the out- ward signs of sin. In this sneak-peek clip from the new episode, which will be released Monday, Garrison — still at the very beginning of his career as an activist — turns heads with a provocative speech at Address to the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1829. 1831-1840: The First Decade of The Liberator: Arguments for Abolition. 2. "To the Public," January 1, 1831. 3. "Working Men," January 1, 1831. 4. "Truisms," January 8, 1831. 5. "Walker's Appeal," January 8, 1831. 6. "Removal to Texas," January 22, 1831. 7. "We Present Our Patrons Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country, and to challenge the admiration of the world. The July 4th speech was an occasion partly sponsored by the American Colonization Society; on that evening he had encouraged the creation of local chapters of that Society, devoted in part to the idea that emancipation should come gradually, with a period of “apprenticeship” during which the enslaved would be prepared for freedom. He had found his life's work. In 1829, Garrison met antislavery advocate Benjamin Lundy. He invited Garrison to come to Baltimore, Maryland and help publish Lundy's antislavery paper The Genius of Universal Emancipation. On July 4 of that same year, Garrison gave his first antislavery speech. Among those who heard Mr. Garrison at the Park Street Church on this afternoon of July 4, 1829, were Whittier and John Pierpont, who wrote 87 12 "Address to the Colonization Society" (a slightly abridged version of the address July 4, 1829). The Liberator, January 1, 1831 – December 29, 1865 Archived January 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. I desire to thank God that he enables me to disregard "the fear of man which bringeth a snare," and to speak his truth in its simplicity and power. Speech of July 4, 1829, to the Colonization Society Fifty-three years ago, the Fourth of July was a proud day for our country. Along with Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison was probably the most influential leader of the abolitionist movement. As you recall from the speech read in class, he began his campaign on July 4, 1829, by claiming that even on that day of national celebration, he was, in view of slavery, "ashamed of my country." Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country, and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present, in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure! In the one case, it is hardly the plucking of a hair from the head; in the other, it In his twenties Garrison became involved in the abolition movement. Initially he supported gradual emancipation and the American Colonization Society’s plan to colonize Africa with American blacks. He abandoned both ideas by 1830 just before launching The Liberator. On July 4, 1829, Garrison delivered an address at Park Street Church to the American Colonization Society that marked the beginning of his public critique of the Constitution and sounded the major themes that would animate his politics over the next three decades. The text deserves a careful reading both for its theoretical and its historical Address to the Colonization Society by William Lloyd Garrison July 4, 1829 It is natural that the return of a day which established the liberties of a brave people should be hailed by them with more than ordinary joy; and it is their duty as Christians and patriots to celebrate it with signal tokens of Thanksgiving. Garrison's first anti-slavery address in Boston. Address at Park Street Church, Boston, July 4, 1829 by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 Publication date 1907 Topics Slavery, Fourth of July orations Publisher Boston : Directors of the Old South Work Collection lincolncollection; americana Contributor Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection On July 4, 1829, Garrison delivered an address at Park Street Church to the American Colonization Society that marked the beginning of his public critique of the Constitution and sounded the major themes that would animate his politics over the next three decades. The text deserves a careful reading both for its theoretical and its historical As I see it, the moment that launched Garrison irrevocably on the course of moral revolution was July 4, 1829 as he stood up to address roughly 1,500 people in Boston’s Park Street Church. At age 23, it was his first significant public address. And it was a barn-burner. A bit of background first. He supported gradual emancipation and limited colonization schemes in Haiti and Texas, but he did not support the American Colonization Society (ACS), which had been established in 1817 to promote the establishment of an American colony in Africa for freed slaves and free blacks.
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