Keywords: William-Lloyd-Garrison-by-Jocelyn,-1833.jpg 1833 oil on wood cm 81 3 69 2 Institution National Portrait Gallery Washington object history exhibition history credit line National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Garrison Norton Single-handedly William Lloyd Garrison transformed the antislavery movement from a discussion about gradually ending slavery into a moral crusade demanding immediate and complete emancipation A printer and editor Garrison experienced his near-religious conversion to abolitionism around 1828 and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 At first he was a lone fierce and unpopular voice; at one point he was almost lynched in his hometown of Boston But Garrison refused to back down I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard he thundered His attack on slavery grew so fierce that he condemned the Constitution as a corrupt document for permitting it Garrison's extremism was not shared by all yet he and his growing number of followers forced the North to the previously radical proposition that slavery was both immoral and antithetical to the country's founding principles accession number place of creation PD-old-100 http //npgportraits si edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum asp rawsearch ObjectID/ /is/ /51849/ /false/ /false newprofile CAP newstyle single Paintings of William Lloyd Garrison Nathaniel Jocelyn 1833 paintings |