Skip to main content
Massachusetts State Seal
Commonwealth Museum   Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin
Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

Virtual Tour Detail

William Lloyd Garrison

Picture of William Lloyd Garrison Massachusetts became a center of the anti-slavery movement and William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, became the voice of radical abolitionists. Garrison denounced the U.S. Constitution as undemocratic because it condoned slavery. Calling the Constitution a "covenant with death," Garrison burned it in the streets.