Bibliograph

Growing up abolitionist, the story of the Garrison children, Harriet Hyman Alonso

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Growing up abolitionist, the story of the Garrison children, Harriet Hyman Alonso

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-389) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Growing up abolitionist

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49903438

Responsibility statement

Harriet Hyman Alonso

Sub title

the story of the Garrison children

Summary

"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, racism, violence, war, imperialism, and the repression of women. As children, they became apprentices of these movements and grew up adoring their dissident parents. Collectively and individually, they carried on their parents' values in distinctive ways. Their path was not always easy. When the Civil War erupted, the entire family had to come to grips with a basic contradiction in their lives. While each member passionately yearned for the end of slavery, all but the eldest son, George, who served as an officer with the 55th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, opposed military participation. The Civil War years also brought four marriage partners into the Garrisons' lives -- Ellen Wright, Lucy McKim, and Annie Anthony (all abolitionist daughters) and Henry Villard, a German-born journalist who later became a railroad magnate and publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation. Raised by loving parents to be political activists, the Garrison children, as adults, assumed positions as leaders or participants in those radical causes of their day which most closely reflected their upbringing: racial justice, women's rights, anti-imperialism, and peace. --, From the rear cover

Table Of Contents

Fanny's story -- Lloyd and Helen -- Establishing the family -- Raising little Garrisons -- Schooling and socializing -- George's search -- Enter Ellie and Lucy -- The family redefined -- Their parents' sons -- Another Fanny's story

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