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Events on Saturday 1 January 1831 1
1831The Liberator begins publicationWilliam Lloyd Garrison launches a radical abolitionist newspaperJournalist William Lloyd Garrison issued the first number of The Liberator in Boston, demanding the immediate and complete abolition of slavery in the United States. The weekly paper became one of the most influential voices of the American anti-slavery movement over the following decades.