what i want to show next is the other primary activity of william lloyd garrison, and that is the newspaper "the liberator. "william lloyd garrison started pushing this paper in 1831. and it's important to note that it has been sent to gerrit smith, esquire, and red ink is used for that purpose, but also to mark an excerpt in the paper. so, the person who sent it to gerrit smith is very particular that he reads this story. and the story concerns thomas clarkson, and the significance of that is that thomas clarkson is the english abolitionist who was principally responsible for the abolition of slavery in great britain. so he is regarded as one of the great forerunners of the movement, and the person who sent this to gerri to smith specially marked the passage for that reason. there are factions within the abolitionist movement -- you wouldn't look to would be factions but there are. and in fact, william lloyd garrison's faction is known for regarding the united states' constitution as a proslavery document. and that sets them up in opposition to the liberal party. i should say the liberty p

william lloyd garrison, people who had fought her husband bitterly leading up to the war and during the war, but she had because of her experience during the war, felt she could come forward and be someone herself a use her own voice to promote a cause that had not occurred to her before the war. after jefferson davis diet, long, drawn out, difficult situation, it accused of being one of the lincoln conspirators, these women showed up in the white house all the time, they would go marching into the white house and tell off the president, whoever he was. i am so jealous. andrew johnson led virginia class's has been down jail just to make her go away. it is remarkable. at any rate davis got jefferson davis out of jail too, didn't work so well for her but finally died and she decided to move to new york to the reporter but mainly wanted the money she had to make a living but also wanted freedom and there was a big problem with the first lady of the confederacy moving to new york, had always been a little too conflicted for a perfect southern belle, so she wrote to her daughter and said i a

from words of frederick douglass, william lloyd garrison from a letter from a formally enslaved man searching his family after the war to voting rights activist ella baker and market walker. to an original music composition the ratification in 1865, which officially set the enslaved free. and the voting rights act of 1965 which ensured for all our right to vote. please, welcome our readers joan mohulland, and cameron grace gamble. for margaret walkers, for my people. for my people everywhere singing their songs repeatedly. praying their prayers nightly. bending their knees humbly to an unseen power. >> when the dark and vengeful spirit of slavery always ambitious preferring to rule in hell than to serve in heaven fired the southern heart. >> by frederick douglass, a reflection on the american civil war. >> and the armies of a gigantic rebellion came forth with broad bleeds and bloody hands. unknown braves who flung themselves into the yawning chasm where cannon roared and bullets whistled and they fought and fell. for my people lending their strength to the years, to the gone years and the no