William Lloyd Garrison Research Paper

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William Lloyd Garrison, hoped for abolition and fought for rights. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1805. Garrison’s father, Abijah Garrison, left and abandoned his family leaving Garrison’s mother to take care of her three children, “From this he developed a strong sense of compassion for the poor”(Bates 1). Additionally, this shows that the family finances were critical and William had to beg for scraps just for him to have a meal. When Garrison was thirteen, he became the apprentice to the editor of the Newburyport Herald, and due to his poor background that was the highest level of education he received. He later went on to be an editor in newspaper companies in the northern part of the U.S. William Lloyd