As early as the 1850s, Lincoln was attacked as an abolitionist. But while many abolitionists emphasized the sinfulness of individual owners, Lincoln did not, although he did publicly condemn the institution of slavery. Lincoln was married to Mary Todd Lincoln, the daughter of a slaveowner from Kentucky. While Wm. Lloyd Garrison, in "The Liberator" newspaper, and a small but growing group of other abolitionists, called for total, immediate abolition of slavery ("immediatism"), Lincoln focused on the more practical goal of preventing the creation of new slave states and specifically blocking the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories.