1. Why does William Lloyd Garrison feel that gradual emancipation, as described by St. George Tucker, is flawed on both practical and moral grounds?
2. How different are the writing styles of abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Lydia Maria Child? What differing beliefs on how best to achieve abolition might underlie these dissimilarities in style?
3. Dwight Lowell Dumond criticizes William Lloyd Garrison for not contributing more substantially to the abolitionist movement, but Russel B. Nye maintains that Garrison played an important symbolic role in the movement. Which appraisal do you find more convincing, and why"