Early antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation

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In 1821 Quaker Benjamin Lundy (4th January, 1789 - 22nd August, 1839) founded the antislavery paper

The Genius of Universal Emancipation

. It ran from 1821 till 1839. Lundy's co-editor William Lloyd Garrison (13th December, 1805 - 24th May, 1879) went on to establish the radical abolitionist paper

The Liberator

in 1831.

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10864 Early antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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