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William Lloyd Garrison Web Resources

Web site Evaluators
Tracy Ajello - Dolittle School, Connecticut
Ruby Bernstein - Laney College, California
Barbara Bureker - Evergreen Internet Academy, Washington
Sherry Tavegie - University of Wyoming, Wyoming

Web site Reviewer and Compiler
Tori Austin - Education Service Center, Texas

Site Ratings

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2 = Fair

3 = Good

4 = Excellent

Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2950.html
This site, a companion to the PBS series "Africans in America", provides a "fine teaching guide and a variety of essays and primary source material." The site links to a "concise biography" of Garrison along with links to letters between Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The text of a "stirring editorial" written by Garrison for his paper The Liberator is available on the site. The editorial reveals a "forward looking " Garrison calling "for not only immediate enfranchisement of our slave population, but we should work to give freed slaves citizenship with the right to vote." Additionally, there is a link to a resource bank of women abolitionist. The resource would be most effectively used with junior high and high school students.
Overall Rating: 4

William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/garris~1.htm
This site, part of the Boston African-American National Historic Site, presents a biographical study, "rich in resources," that depicts the highlights of William Lloyd Garrison's fight against slavery. The biography "serves as a chronology of American views about slavery and the Abolitionist Movement." Quotes from Garrison, best know for establishing The Liberator in 1831, "demonstrate his beliefs, his passions, and his methods." There is a multitude of links including one to a virtual tour of Boston's Black Heritage Trail and a state by state look at the Underground Railroad. Additionally, there are links to biographies of "people connected in some way to Garrison" and who are significant in regards to the Abolitionist Movement. "This is a good resource for teachers as well as students doing research on Garrison or on the Abolitionist Movement."
Overall Rating: 3.5

William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/garrison
This site contains the complete text of Ernest Crosby's 1905 book Garrison, the Non-Resistant. The electronic version is "more readable than many electronic texts." There is a hyper-linked table of contents "that allows readers to jump to specific chapters." Teacher "might be able to use pieces of this biography, but it would probably not be useful for most students." The site has many "pop-up advertising messages," which can be distracting to the reader.
Overall Rating: 2