The job marked Garrison’s initiation into the Abolitionist movement.īy the time he was 25 years old, Garrison had joined the American Colonization Society. When Lundy offered Garrison an editor’s position at Genius of Emancipation in Vermont, Garrison eagerly accepted. The anti-slavery editor of the Genius of Emancipation brought the cause of abolition to Garrison’s attention. In 1828, while working for the National Philanthropist, Garrison took a meeting with Benjamin Lundy.
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When the Free Press folded in 1828, Garrison moved to Boston, where he landed a job as a journeyman printer and editor for the National Philanthropist, a newspaper dedicated to temperance and reform. Within six months, the Free Press went under due to subscribers’ objections to its staunch Federalist viewpoint. Unfortunately, the Newburyport Free Press lacked similar staying power. The two forged a friendship that would last a lifetime. In it, he would also publish John Greenleaf Whittier’s early poems. Garrison renamed the paper the Newburyport Free Press and used it as a political instrument for expressing the sentiments of the old Federalist Party.
After he finished his apprenticeship in 1826, when he was 20 years old, Garrison borrowed money from his former employer and purchased The Newburyport Essex Courant. Through Garrison’s various newspaper jobs, he acquired the skills to run his own newspaper. It was during this apprenticeship that Garrison would find his true calling. Allen, the editor of the Newburyport Herald. In 1818, when Garrison was 13 years old, he was appointed to a seven-year apprenticeship as a writer and editor under Ephraim W. A short stint at cabinetmaking was equally unsuccessful. In 1814, he reunited with his mother and took an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, but the work proved too physically demanding for the young boy.
As a child, Garrison lived with a Baptist deacon for a time, where he received a rudimentary education. Garrison’s mother, a devout Baptist named Frances Maria, struggled to raise Garrison and his siblings in poverty.
When Garrison was only three years old, his father Abijah abandoned the family. Garrison was born the son of a merchant sailor in Newburyport, Massachusetts on December 10, 1805. When the civil war ended, he, at last, saw the abolition of slavery. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. In 1832, he helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society. In 1830, William Lloyd Garrison started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. (1805-1879) Who Was William Lloyd Garrison?
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