10. In the 1820s, who were the only voices advocating the end of slavery? 11. What was William Lloyd Garrison's family like? a. What impact did his mother have on him? b. What was the role of religion in his life? 12. What did Garrison do after arriving in Boston?
10: Abolitionists were among the first to raise their voices in protest against slavery. Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, David Walker and other men and women devoted to the abolitionist movement who awakened the conscience of the American people to the evils of the enslaved people trade.
11: William were recent immigrants to Newburyport from the British Colony of New Brunswick, in present day Canada. Garrison father who had struggled with unemployment and alcoholism abandoned the family.
a) Garrison mother was a devout Baptist, Garrison mother seldom spoke of her husband and in many ways she attempted to remove his imprint on the family. William used to work in order to support his mother. He was deeply influenced by his mother’s all consuming Baptist faith.
b) As William grew into an adulthood in an environment of religious revivalism also known as Second Great Awakening. He was inspired by the preaching of revivalist ministers Lyman Breecher and Charles Grandison Finney who exhorted their followers to seek a more personal relationship with God.
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