The making of an abolitionist : William Lloyd Garrison's path to publishing The Liberator /
Denis Brennan.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Standing at case -- The "mere boy" -- Political machinations -- Religious apathy -- A change of heart -- On trial in Baltimore -- "And I will be heard" -- "The press is able to cope".
"This book traces William Lloyd Garrison's path through a printing career to the decision to publish The Liberator. He was a mechanic and an editor, later a reformer, but always a printer. His expertise with the printing press and the practice of journalism became for him the natural means for ending slavery"--