VOL. XXXII, NO. 11, WHOLE NO. 1620. 4pp., 6 columns, measuring 18 x 26”. Exhibits light yellowing with chipping at corners & fold-mark margins. Light water staining along entire right margin. Else VG & entirely legible.

The Liberator was founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, and was the most prestigious and influential abolitionist periodical. Its pre-war masthead proclaimed its politics; To wit: “No Union With Slaveholders! The United States Constitution is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

The March 14, 1862 issue appeared three weeks before Grant’s victory at the Battle of Shiloh and six weeks prior to the beginnings of McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign. The front page contains various pieces from other sources, including “Abolition Is Treason”, from the Janesville [Wis.] Gazette, and “Imminent Danger” & “Who Are the Negro Worshippers?”, from the Chicago Tribune.  The third page contains President Lincoln’s proposal for   gradual, compensated emancipation of slaves, a step he preferred to immediate, military emancipation, editorially opposed by the Liberator.

Intact copies of Wm. L. Garrison’s Liberator are extremely scarce. A fine anti-slavery collectible..