William Lloyd Garrison Memorial, Boston. He did not spring forth fully formed in his abolitionist views; he got his start in the newspaper business as a 13-year-old apprentice typesetter, then gradually began writing news, observations and opinons. At the end of his apprenticeship he and a partner bought their own newspaper, where they published the poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. That paper soon folded and Garrison became editor of the first publication to promote Prohibition along with temperance. At 25 he joined the Abolitionist movement, growing dissatisfied in time with the many proposals to compromise on slavery. When he opened The Liberator, he announced in print that he was all in for the cause. (Olin Levi Warner)
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