Biography on william lloyd garrison

(1805-1879)

Who Was William Lloyd Garrison?

In 1830, William Lloyd Garrison started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator.

In 1832, he helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document.

Biography on william lloyd garrison

When the civil war ended, he, at last, saw the abolition of slavery.

Early Life

Garrison was born the son of a merchant sailor in Newburyport, Massachusetts on December 10, 1805. When Garrison was only three years old, his father Abijah abandoned the family.

Garrison’s mother, a devout Baptist named Frances Maria, struggled to raise Garrison and his siblings in poverty. As a child, Garrison lived with a Baptist deacon for a time, where he received a rudimentary education. 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.

A short stint at cabinetmaking was equally unsuccessful.

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