Note 135 — Chapter IV · Lynch-law 1830–1860
Reading edition
The Liberator, Nov. 5, 1831 (1: 180).
The publication of this paper was begun in Boston in 1831, by William Lloyd Garrison, the enthusiastic agitator of the anti-slavery cause. His efforts to make his lists of “Southern Atrocities” as large as possible render his paper a valuable source of information on the subject of lynch-law, particularly lynch-law as applied to negroes prior to the Civil War.