A year before Nat Turner's Rebellion a new movement opposed to slavery began in the North. A preacher named William Ellery Channing proposed that slaves should be emancipated, and their owners should recover from their loss by selling government owned lands. A Boston journalist named William Lloyd Garrison began the publication of The Liberator and publicized abolitionism even more; he called for complete abolition of slavery without payment to slave owners. Abolitionism was originally based in the North, and white Southerners alleged it fostered slave rebellion. The Second Great Awakening also inspired slaves to demand freedom. Nat Turner, unlike most slaves, had learnt how to read and was a deeply religious man, who experienced a series of 'visions'. He was influenced by the Second Great Awakening and the literature of the Abolitionists.