The late anti-slavery meeting. To Mr. William Loyd Garrison.

Letter from Charles M’Ewan to William Lloyd Garrison regarding a Public Meeting of the Glasgow Anti-slavery Society, held in the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw's Chapel. Although we don’t have a date in this document, we know a meeting like that was held on 16th January, 1833. William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which was published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.

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