Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were as different as two men could be. William Lloyd Garrison was the son of a hard-drinking sailor, Wendell Phillips the son of a rich Boston lawyer. Garrison had picked up scraps of knowledge as a printer's devil, Phillips had been a Harvard dandy. Garrison wore the solemn look of a New England preacher, Phillips sported the manners of a worldly sophisticate...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
...slave owners knew an enemy when they saw one. Georgia's legislature offered $5,000 for Garrison's arrest and conviction "under the laws of the State." Mississippi slave owners made up a purse for his capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came...
...college at Sandhurst. He passed out proudly, eighth in a class of 150. Sent to Bangalore, in southern India, Churchill became a brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that "those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand...