Well into the 1960s, historians taught their undergraduates that abolitionists such as william lloyd garrison, theodore dwight weld, and angelina and sarah grimke were irresponsible fanatics who brought on a civil war. what was radical about these reformers?

These reforms were radical due to their slavery perspectives for the citizens of African Americans in the US.

William Lloyd Garrison worked for the liberation of citizens specifically African Americans as it was a new idea for other reformers.

William formed an anti-slavery society even when the world war was started, he was persistently initiating this movement. It is because he has witnessed the horrific slavery abuse.

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William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist who sought immediate emancipation for all African Americans, an unusual idea for the 1830s when most of those who did support emancipation posed a gradual reform.

Influenced by Garrison's work, Theodore Dwight Weld, his wife Angelina Grimké and her sister Sarah Grimké wrote American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a book published in 1839, which spread antislavery ideas that helped start the Civil War.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

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