Industrial Age · North America · Culture

1831

The Liberator Begins

January 1, 1831

William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his abolitionist weekly in Boston, declaring "I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard." He was. The American abolition movement had found its loudest, least compromising voice.

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Before and after in North America

Before: May 28, 1830: Indian Removal Act
After: November 13, 1833: Leonid Meteor Storm

Before and after in Culture

Before: April 25, 1827: Beethoven Dies
After: March 22, 1832: Goethe Dies

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.