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This Day in Boston History
May 13th, 1886
William Lloyd Garrison
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this day, the Commonwealth Avenue statue of William Lloyd Garrison was
unveiled. Sculpted by Olin Levi Warren, the seated Garrison has newspapers
beneath his chair as if he just paused from reading.
The young garrison, an orphan, sustained himself as an apprentice to
a printer. He became co-editor of a newsletter, then founded the weekly
abolitionist newspaper The Liberator in 1831. The early abolition
movement was despised, and in 1835 Garrison was captured by a mob and
taken to be hung on the Boston Common. City police intervened and allowed
him to stay in their prison until he could be spirited out of Boston.
Over the next three decades Garrison and his newspaper would be the
hub of New England's antislavery movement.
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