Well into the 1960s, historians taught their undergraduates that abolitionists such as william lloyd garrison, theodore dwight weld, and angelina and sarah grimke were irresponsible fanatics who brought on a civil war. what was radical about these reformers?

These reforms were radical due to their slavery perspectives for the citizens of African Americans in the US.

William Lloyd Garrison worked for the liberation of citizens specifically African Americans as it was a new idea for other reformers.

William formed an anti-slavery society even when the world war was started, he was persistently initiating this movement. It is because he has witnessed the horrific slavery abuse.

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William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist who sought immediate emancipation for all African Americans, an unusual idea for the 1830s when most of those who did support emancipation posed a gradual reform.

Influenced by Garrison's work, Theodore Dwight Weld, his wife Angelina Grimké and her sister Sarah Grimké wrote American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a book published in 1839, which spread antislavery ideas that helped start the Civil War.

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