Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, was the voice of a generation of abolitionists. While he and the abolition movement had their differences at times, Garrison was a superb writer who never pulled his punches.

Love him or hate him, you couldn't ignore him.

The Liberator was some of the first anti-slavery literature Douglass read when he came North, and its influence on him is hard to overestimate. "The Church and Prejudice" was given early in his career as an activist, when he and Garrison were tight.

With the phrase, "Our country is the world—our countrymen are mankind," as its slogan, The Liberator agitated for emancipation for thirty-four years.