caa a22 4500 388048395 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006281 doi S0361233300006281 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006281 Fanuzzi Robert A. "The Organ of an Individual”: William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator [Elektronische Daten] [Robert A. Fanuzzi] The political agenda of William Lloyd Garrison and his adherents within the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (MASS) can be reconstructed with the rhetoric and practices of print culture, starting with its assumption that the prospects for the slaves' emancipation waxed and waned with the proliferation of writing. In the mid-1830s, the MASS mailed antislavery publications in mass quantities to civic leaders, newspaper editors, and post offices in both the North and South. In 1837 alone, it issued 711, 277 publications, which Garrison noted were falling "thicker than raindrops ... nourishing the soil of freedom.” Although their publicity campaign elicited a hostile reaction from political officials, newspaper editors, and most infamously, violent mobs, the abolitionists persisted. A typical budget for the MASS allotted far more money to printing and distribution than any other expenditure, including the remuneration of their often imperiled traveling agents. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 107-127 0361-2333 23<107 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006281 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006281 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fanuzzi Robert A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 107-127 0361-2333 23<107 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge