William Lloyd Garrison: Uncompromise During Times of Compromise William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an American journalist and adamant abolitionist. Garrison became famous in the 1830s for his uncompromising denunciations of slavery. Garrison lived a troubled childhood. His family lived in poverty. In addition, his father was a drunkard, and when Garrison was three years old, his father deserted his family and never came back. Thus, with the absence of an encouraging father figure in his …showed first 75 words of 347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 347 total…suggestions on how the slavery issue could be resolved, he accepted the Civil War as necessary. Garrison even went as far as to say that the South should just secede from the Union (“No union with slave-holders!”) Garrison did not attempt to provide a remedy for this secession issue either. Thus, taking the additive impression imparted above into account, it can be fairly concluded that Garrison tried to aggrandize himself to a higher social pedestal.