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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garrison, William Lloyd 1804-1879 (search)
and was its president from that time until 1865. William Lloyd garrison. Attending, as a delegate, the World's Antislavery Convention, in London (1840), he refused to take his seat, because the women delegates from the United States were refused seats in that body. In 1866 he received about $30,000 as a national testimonial from his friends for his arduous labors in the cause of humanity. He died in New York, May 24, 1879. See Phillips, Wendell. Lessons of Independence day. On July 4, 1842, he delivered the following oration in Boston: I present myself as the advocate of my enslaved countrymen, at a time when their claims cannot be shuffled out of sight, and on an occasion which entitles me to a respectful hearing in their behalf. If I am asked to prove their title to liberty, my answer is, that the Fourth of July is not a day to be wasted in establishing self-evident truths. In the name of the God who has made us of one blood, and in whose image we are created; in t