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This Day in Boston History
December 10th, 1805
William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist Publisher
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On this day
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Abandoned
by both parents before he was twelve, Garrison would live doing odd jobs,
as a print setter; a printer's apprentice, and eventually editing a newspaper.
At the age of 26 he would publish the first edition of his own weekly
newspaper, The Liberator. Dedicated to gaining the immediate freedom
and equality of African Americans, he would publish 1,820 issues over
thirty-five years, positioning himself as an unyielding voice for abolition,
and attracting a staff members such as Lucy
Stone.
He is remembered by this statue placed on the Commonwealth Ave. Mall in
Boston. Artist Olin Levy Warner quotes part of his first Liberator
editorial on the statue.
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