Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children.(Book Review) From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Blue, Frederick J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 409. $24.95.)

Until recently, the typical picture of William Lloyd Garrison has been one of a grim, firebrand who was totally dedicated to the destruction of slavery with little time for wife and family. Any mention of Helen Benson Garrison has been of a wife fully acquiescing in his domination. For if Garrison trie...

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