One of those "no-government men" was William Lloyd Garrison, famous abolitionist and publisher of "The Liberator". Nearly all abolitionists identified with the self-ownership principle, namely that each person, as an individual, owned and should control his or her own mind and body free of outside coercive interference. The abolitionist called for the immediate and unconditional cessation of slavery because they saw slavery as man-stealing in its most direct and worst form. Slavery reflected the theft of a person's self-ownership rights. The slave was a chattel with no rights of its own. The abolitionists realized that each human being, without exception, was naturally invested with sovereignty over him or her self and that no one could exercise forcible control over another without breaching the self-ownership principle. Garrison was not a pure voluntaryist, for he supported the federal government's war against the Southern states from 1861 to 1865.