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First published it January
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1st 1831 in Boston, called The Liberator,
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and he would publish it for the next 35 years.
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He would cease publishing it in December 1865;
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about nine months after the end of the Civil War,
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he ceased publication of The Liberator in the week
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after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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His life is complicated, complex--
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he was one complex character.
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But he is the real thing, a professional, radical reformer.
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He was born in utter poverty,
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in Newburyport, Massachusetts.