| 1829/07/04 |
William Lloyd Garrison gives his "Address to the Colonization Society" at Park Street, his first major public statement against slavery. |
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Slavery In America |
| 1831/01/01 |
The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, is established by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. Weekly issues will be published in Boston until 29 December 1865. |
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| 1835/10/21 |
Mayor Theodore Lyman Jr gives refuge to William Garrison, the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator, who was being chased by a violent mob. Garrison was kept safe in the Old State House until being driven to the Leverett Street Jail (lost). |
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| 1837/12/18 |
In a letter to William Garrison, Samuel May is critical of the Boston city government for objecting to using Faneuil Hall as an antislavery meeting sponsored by William Ellery Channing. |
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| 1864/09/00 |
Hunnewell sells his estate to the Garrison family trust for $8,000. Established in 1849, the trust was comprised of William L Garrison's three eldest sons. W L Garrison did not own the estate until November 1875. It was his home until his death in 1879. |
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