William Lloyd Garrison, nineteenth century radical Abolitionist, in addition to publishing the Boston-based Liberator newspaper, wrote hundreds of letter to both friends and foes. Those letters, collected in several places, become the source material of this site.
This site is based on the four volume work, William Lloyd Garrison, The Story of His Life, Told by his Children. Another site is a companion location for this one. At theliberatorfiles.com the viewer can read selected items from the Liberator, which are also indexed in over one hundred categories.
A much larger site, not included here, is the superb six-volume set of Letters of William Lloyd Garrison , edited by Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames, from the Belknap Press of Harvard University. Researchers with access to that material may also find it helpful to compare items from the Liberator with items from the letters in the same time period. The goal here is to facilitate that search.