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Garrison was born on December 10, 1805. When garrison was only 3 years old when his dad left his family. His mother a Baptist struggled to raise garrison and his siblings while being poor. Garrison lived with a Baptist deacon where he received basic education. By 1814 reunited with his mom and got a apprenticeship as a shoe worker. Which was too physical garrison being young.

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in 1818 when garrison was 13 years old, he was appointed for a seven-year apprenticeship as a writer and editor. He was working for Ephriam W. Allen which is also the editor of the Newburyport herald. This was the time he found his true calling #true calling.

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Through all of garrison's newspaper jobs he gained the skills needed to run his own newspaper. After he finished his apprenticeship in 1826 garrison was 20 years old. He then borrowed money from his former employer and purchased the Newburyport Essex Courant. He renamed it Newbury port free press and used that to Espress the sentiments of the federalist party # federalist rule. sadly within 6 months the free press went under due to subscribers objections. # free press.

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in 1828 while garrison was working for the national philanthropist, garrison took a meeting with Benjamin Lundy. The anti-slavery editor of the Genius of Emancipation brought the cause of abolition to Garrison’s thinking. When Lundy offered Garrison an editor’s position at Genius of Emancipation in Vermont, Garrison happily accepted the job made Garrison an initiation into the Abolitionist movement. #Just got a new job.

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When garrison was 25 years old had joined the American colonization society. The society held that black people should move to the west coast of Africa. He first believed that society's goal was to promote black people freedom and for their well-being. He realized that they wanted to reduce the amount of free enslaved people in the United States.

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1830 Garrison left from the American Colonization Society and started his own abolitionist paper which he called The Liberator. As published in its first issue the Liberator’s motto read "Our country is the world our countrymen are mankind." The Liberator was responsible for initially building Garrison’s reputation as an abolitionist. In 1832 he helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society. After taking a short trip to England in 1833 Garrison founded the American Anti-Slavery Society a national organization dedicated to achieving abolition. but Garrison’s not wanting to take political action caused many of his fellow abolitionist supporters to gradually leave the pacifist. Mistakenly Garrison had created a fracture among members of the American Anti-Slavery Society. By 1840 defectors formed their own rival organization called the American Foreign and Anti-Slavery Society.

In 1841 an even greater schism existed among members of the abolitionist movement.