JEFERSON DAVIS agreed with William's call for the immediate emancipation of slaves.
William Garrison was a human activist and a newspaper editor who has been advocating for the abolition of slavery since early 1830. Jefferson Davis was a planter, a slaveholder and the president of a confederacy that was dedicated to slavery's preservation. The two men initially held differing views about slaves and slavery, thus it was noteworthy when Davis shared William's view in 1861 that slavery should be abolished. The two of them agreed through their writings that slavery was the cause of the civil war in America.