| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Canada and the United States

Harriet Hyman Alonso. Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 409. Cloth $80.00, paper $24.95.
This is a family biography. Harriet Hyman Alonso has mined letters, diaries, speeches, articles, books, and artifacts, many of which were carefully archived by the Garrisons and their descendants, in order to create a picture of life in the household of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, his wife Helen Eliza Benson Garrison, and their children. She describes Lloyd and his wife as unusually attentive and permissive parents who created a loving and stable home life for their children and the Garrison children as affectionate and relatively compliant. The domestic environment that resulted appears to have been exceptionally tranquil.	1
Five of the Garrison's seven children—George, William, Wendell, Fanny, and Frank—survived early childhood. Alonso says that a number of factors influenced the kind of adults they eventually became. Their social self-assurance and claim to middle-class respectability, she suggests, came from the willingness of wealthy abolitionist sympathizers to help support their family and to provide them with social connections and access to a kind of education that their relatively impoverished parents could not have afforded on their own. The facts that they matured in a home environment rich in drama, emotional security, and intellectual stimulation and that they spent their childhoods surrounded by a network of friends from other prominent reform-minded families, who both insulated them from those hostile to their father's work and nurtured their commitment to social justice and political activism, meant, she argues, that they would grow up to be reformers in their own right.	. . .

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