PDF Introduction of the Ironclad Warship (Classics of Naval Literature) by James Phinney Baxter in History

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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 that most closely reflected their upbringing: racial justice; women's rights; anti-imperialism; and peace.