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Imposing stone for The Liberator

Imposing stone for The Liberator Pine, iron
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Pine, iron, [circa 1840]

100.7 cm x 74.5 cm x 99.7 cm

The imposing stone on which William Lloyd Garrison composed type for his abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.

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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

William Lloyd Garrison used this imposing stone—a thick sheet of slate encased in a pine stand—between 1845 and 1865 to compose type for his abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison was one of the first American abolitionists to demand immediate and complete emancipation of slaves.