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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 6: the genius of Universal emancipation.—1829-30. (search)
of living freight were reported in the newspapers as unblushingly as if they had been cattle, or bales of cotton, or other merchandise. In a single week—that ending Oct. 16, 1831—371 slaves were landed in New Orleans, chiefly from Alexandria, Norfolk, and Charleston (Niles' Register, Nov. 26, 1831). Fully fifty thousand slaves a year, it was estimated, Lib. 4.91. were sold and transported from one State to another, in this infernal traffic, whose victims, torn from their kindred and fthe blood of their masters in their veins), went forth with hearts full of despair to what they believed to be a certain, slow and torturous death. Not infrequently they chose instant death by suicide in preference. Alexandria, Baltimore, and Norfolk were the ports from which the Maryland and Virginia slaves were chiefly shipped; and as Lundy's soul had been stirred within him by the sight of the daily processions of manacled slaves before his door at Wheeling, so now was Garrison's indignat
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
ia) at an age when his humanity should have been tender and sensitive to cruelty; mature and a clergyman he witnessed it in the West Indies; it was still two years after Mr. Garrison had in vain besought him to cast in the weight of his mighty influence with the despised abolitionists, before he put forth his little work on Slavery, which finished his reputation at the South as completely as if he had accepted the presidency of an anti-slavery society. Meantime, his sermon had made the Norfolk (Va.) Beacon (a colonization organ) explicitly Lib. 4.193. give him up as ranged under the banners of Garrison. In this year 1834 now passing from view, the American nativity of the editor of the Liberator was first doubted and denied. His deep feeling for Newburyport, not smothered by a later attachment (also of the deepest) for his adopted city, Boston, found expression in the following sonnet: Whether a persecuted child of thine Lib. 4.15; Writings of W. L. G., p. 173. Thou deig