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| | William Lloyd Garrison |
 | | William Lloyd Garrison, the American anti-slavery leader, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the 10th of December 1805. |
 | | Garrison countenanced the activity of women in the cause, even to the extent of allowing them to vote and speak in the anti-slavery societies, and appointing them as lecturing agents; moreover, he believed in the political equality of the sexes, to which a strong party waf opposed upon social and religious grounds. |
 | | Garrison's son, also named William Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909), was a prominent advocate of the single tax, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and an opponent of imperialism; another son, Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907), was literary editor of the New York Nation from 1865 to 1906. |
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