who signed and printed his name wm. lloyd garrison, was a prominent american abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. he is best known for his widely-read abolitionist newspaper "the liberator", which he founded in 1831 and published in boston until slavery in the united states was abolished by constitutional amendment in 1865. he was one of the founders of the american anti-slavery society, and promoted immediate, as opposed to gradual, emancipation of slaves in the united states.