abstract:William Louis Garrison (born 1924) is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems.
At this time, Northernreformers, such asWilliam Lloyd Garrisonand Samuel Chase, portrayed the framersof the United StatesConstitution as proponentsofindividualautonomy and capitalistvalues.
Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.
VOA: special.2009.04.20
One of the most steadfast and famous abolitionists in New England, he was far more radical than William Lloyd Garrison, if, that is, radicalism is measured by a willingness to entertain violence for the social good.