Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children

by Harriet Hyman Alonso

Much has been written about the life of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805--1879), but relatively little attention has been paid to his wife, Helen Benson Garrison, and their seven children. In Growing Up Abolitionist, Garrison's public image recedes into the background and the family's private world takes center stage. The lives of the Garrison children were shaped within the context of the great nineteenth-century campaigns against slavery,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558493816
• ISBN13: 9781558493810
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher