The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive Slave Act; a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves hack to angry masters but threatened the liberty of all free blacks; Despite such provocation; Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period; though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves.Garrison's writings also reflect the interests of his times. He engaged in lively correspondence with fellow countrymen Harriet Beecher Stowe; Wendell Phillips; Susan B. Anthony; Theodore Parker; and Stephen S. Foster. In a long letter to Louis Kossuth; he challenges that Hungarian patriot's stand of opposing tyranny in Europe while ignoring slavery in America.Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the western United States and of family affairs back home in Boston; Garrison's letters of this decade make a distinctive contribution to antebellum life and thought.
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