page_title: William Lloyd Garrison
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: William Lloyd Garrison / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Statue of William Lloyd Garrison by Olin Levi Warner, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dedicated 1886.
context_page_description: William Lloyd Garrison,
  who signed and printed his name Wm. Lloyd Garrison, was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely-read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1865. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States.
  "The source of Garrison's power was the Bible. From his earliest days, he read the Bible constantly and prayed constantly. It was with this fire that he started his conflagration. ...So also, a prejudice against all fixed forms of worship, against the authority of human government, against every binding of the spirit into conformity with human law, — all these things grew up in Garrison's mind out of his Bible reading."
  Garrison was not an abolitionist who became a publisher, but a printer who became an abolitionist.
context_section_description: Boston installed a memorial to Garrison on the mall of Commonwealth Avenue.
  In December 2005, to honor Garrison's 200th birthday, his descendants gathered in Boston for the first family reunion in about a century. They discussed the legacy and influence of their most notable family member.
  Garrison is honored together with Maria Stewart by a feast day on December 17 on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church.
  A shared-use path along the John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge and Interstate 95 between Newburyport and Amesbury, Massachusetts, was named in honor of Garrison. The 2-mile trail opened in 2018 after the new bridge was completed.
caption: Memorial to Garrison on the mall of Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
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