William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States. As the editor of the abolitionist paper "The Liberator" and cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Garrison spent most of his life arguing against slavery on strictly moral grounds. This engrossing book presents six essays that reevaluate Garrison's legacy, his accomplishments, and his limitations.Eminent scholars David W. Blight, Bruce Laurie, James Brewer Stewart, Richard J. M. Blackett, and Lois A. Brown, and a distinguished journalist Lloyd McKim Garrison (who is Garrison's direct descendant), reflect on Garrison as a political activist, an internationalist, an advocate of feminism, and more. Together they present a new appraisal of one of America's most challenging, inspiring, and controversial historical figures.

William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : his radicalism and his legacy for our time / --"And There Shall Be No More Sea" : William Lloyd Garrison and the transatlantic abolitionist movement / -- William Lloyd Garrison and emancipatory feminism in nineteenth-century America / -- Putting politics back in : rethinking the problem of political abolitionism / -- God, Garrison, and the coming of the Civil War / -- Garrison at two hundred : the family, the legacy, and the question of Garrison's relevance in contemporary America / Lloyd Mckim Garrison. William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : his radicalism and his legacy for our time / David W. Blight -- "And There Shall Be No More Sea" : William Lloyd Garrison and the transatlantic abolitionist movement / Richard J.M. Blackett -- William Lloyd Garrison and emancipatory feminism in nineteenth-century America / Lois A. Brown -- Putting politics back in : rethinking the problem of political abolitionism / Bruce Laurie -- God, Garrison, and the coming of the Civil War / James Brewer Stewart -- Garrison at two hundred : the family, the legacy, and the question of Garrison's relevance in contemporary America / Lloyd Mckim Garrison.