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Which of the following describes William Lloyd Garrison?

AHe was a former enslaved person who became a speaker.

BHe organized the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society.

CHe was one of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening.

DHe founded the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.

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LordT

1st option: False. He was not a slave. 
2nd option: False. Anthony Benezet organized that. 
3rd option: False. Not on the list of leaders. 
4th option: Mostly true. He co-founded the Liberator with Isaac Knapp. 

MsEleanor

D) He founded the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.

William Lloyd Garrison founded the Liberator in 1831 to be the newspaper of the abolition movement.

The Liberator became the voice of the abolition movement from 1831-1865. Garrison believed in the immediate emancipation of slaves with them becoming citizens of the US. Garrison believed in extreme means to end slavery evening arguing the North should secede from the Union if the South refused to bend on the issue of slavery.

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