William Lloyd Garrison gave Black Americans a new and strident voic in his newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison didn't just use African Americans as symbols. He published their work in his newspaper.

In the 1840s, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, for example, “wanted to burn the Constitution and saw it as a “compact with the devil.” But by the 1850s, Douglass shifted his stance.

In the 1840s, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, for example, “wanted to burn the Constitution and saw it as a “compact with the devil.” But by the 1850s, Douglass shifted his stance.