Textual style and radical critique in William Lloyd Garrison's thoughts on African colonization

William Lloyd Garrison's (1882/1968) Thoughts on African Colonization ushered in the immediatist phase of the abolitionist movement and directly influenced a new generation of young reformers. It is examined here as an important example of how textual style can function to displace prevailing languages of reform‐the accommodationist discourse of the American Colonization Society‐with the more radical vocabulary of evangelicalism.