Question

Describe the issues Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison eventually split over.

Answer 1

William Lloyd Garrison is the first person who introduced Frederick Douglass to wealthy abolitionists in Boston and helped him not only publish his book 'slave autobiography' but also to find work as an anti-slavery lecturer. Moreover, it was william lloyd garrison who promoted frederick douglass and helped him gain fame as the foremost of all African-American anti-slavery speakers. Both of them were very strong personalities. Garrison had broken with other friends and he and Douglass had a disagreement when Douglass started his own anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, which ran in competition with The Liberator. Garrison was not happy, but it wasn't just because of the new paper. In fact, The Liberator actually published a very favorable review of the The North Star. Personally, Garrison was very angry with Douglass at this time because he felt betrayed. What happened was that while the two men were on a rigorous anti-slaver lecture tour in the west, Garrison became extremely ill, in fact, he thought he was dying. Just as he was beginning to recover, Douglass left him.  Garrison felt betrayed and never fully trusted his former colleague Douglass ever again, and both parted their ways afterwards. Garrison was unwilling to believe that Douglass could or should speak anything outside of his own story.In this way both of them seperated forever.