Born December 10, 1805
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Died May 24, 1879
New York , New York

Journalist, abolitionist leader, social reformer

William Lloyd Garrison was born into a very poor family in New England but was determined from a very early age to make something out of his life. He got his lucky break at the age of twelve when he became an apprentice with the owner and editor of the local newspaper. At twenty years old he started his own newspaper and although it didn't last long he knew he had found his calling. After a series of jobs as editor of different publications he also knew that he had found his cause: ending slavery in the United States. In 1831 Garrison created The Liberator, a weekly newspaper devoted to abolishing slavery, which he edited for thirty-four years.