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Through his newspaper, The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison opposed slavery for 35 years. The policy of the paper was established in the first issue with Garrison's editorial "To the Public", in which he stated that he would "strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population".

In this essay, William Lloyd Garrison protests against the Dred Scott decision, against the infamous Fugitive Slave Law, and against all unjust and oppressive enactments, and especially against the existence of the slave system in the South. He reiterates the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence and calls for their practical enforcement throughout the land.

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a prominent abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He referred to slavery as "a gangrene preying upon our vitals" and as a curse that is debasing in its effect. He called for the liberation of those who were subjected in hopeless bondage and to crush the vampire of slavery that was feeding upon the lifeblood of the Republic.

“Truisms” by the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison consists of a list of hypocritical ideas about slavery. For Garrison, earlier writers had been too lenient condemning slavery. This is a unique way of showing how slavery is wrong and immoral in multiple ways.