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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
monthly newspaper called the Emancipator had been established at Jonesborough, Tennessee, by Elihu Embree, also a Friend, to whom must be accorded the honor of publishing the first periodical in America of which the one avowed object was opposition to slavery. When Lundy heard of it he deemed it unnecessary to attempt anything of the kind himself; but, on his way home from St. Louis, news of Embree's death reached him, and he then resolved to establish a new journal at Mount Pleasant. In July, 1821, the first number of the Genius of Universal Emancipation was issued. It was begun without a dollar of capital, and with only six subscribers, and for a time Life of Lundy, p. 20. Lundy walked a distance of twenty miles, each month, to Steubenville, to get the paper printed, and returned with the edition on his back. Early in the following year the Genius was removed to 1822. Greenville, Tennessee, through the urgency of Elihu Embree's friends, and printed on the press of the la