In the first issue of the liberator, william lloyd garrison wrote: "i am in earnest – i will not equivocate – i will not excuse – i will not retreat a single inch – and i will be heard." describe how this reflects the time period in which he was writing. your answer should be at least 150 words. see below for the full excerpt. i am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? i will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. on this subject i do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. no! no! tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. i am in earnest—i will not equivocate—i will not excuse—i will not retreat a single inch—and i will be heard. the apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Taken from "The Liberator" by William Lloyd Garrison (1831), the excerpt "I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard" depicts the movement which the United States was going though. That movement was abolitionism. It took place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and its purpose was to end the practice of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison joined the movement when he was 25 years old and he was the voice of abolitionism. In fact, Garrison helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832. Garrison published the first edition of the anti-slavery newspaper “The Liberator” in 1831 and he not only attacked slave-holders but also the gradualists; he focused on the emancipation of slaves in the country. Garrison’s publications reached thousands of individuals worldwide and most of the readers were African Americans. The last issue was published after the end of the Civil War in 1865.

b. the poet identifies with private people.

    in the stanza, dickinson states she doesn't wish to seek fame and recognition from the public eye. nor is she afraid of authority figures, and you can definitely tell she isn't hiding something. more as she identifies with private people, who are not known by the community