William Lloyd Garrison's 'The Liberator' was a significant publication because it:
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Correct answer: Demanded the immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery
Garrison was a leader of the radical abolitionist movement, famously declaring that he would not 'equivocate' or 'retreat a single inch.' His newspaper was instrumental in shifting the anti-slavery conversation from gradualism to immediate emancipation.
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