Autographs
“Though woman never can be man ... She matches man, for a’ that!” by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (1805-1879). American Journalist, Reformer, Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) and Publisher of “The Liberator”.
July 23, 1875-Dated, Original Autograph Quotation Signed “Wm. Lloyd Garrison,” at Boston, very beautifully and very crisply Handwritten on gilt-edge paper measuring about 6.75” x 8.25”. This Quotation reads, in full:

"Though woman never can be man,

By change of sex, and a' that,

To equal rights 'gainst class or clan,

Her claim is just, for a ' that.

For a' that, and a' that,

Her Eden slip, and a' that;

In all that makes a living soul

She matches man, for a' that!”
William Lloyd Garrison was an American journalist and reformer. He was founder and publisher (1831-65) of "The Liberator," a famous antislavery journal. He became leader of radical abolitionists, a founder of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) and its president (1843-65).

He also composed the Compromise of 1850, urged separation between North and South, and after the Civil War campaigned against liquor, prostitution, injustice in treatment of Indians and favored women’s suffrage.