Statue of William Lloyd Garrison

The bronze figure of William Lloyd Garrison sits upright in a heavy chair, clutching a manuscript in his left hand. He stares toward the Public Garden with a stern, concentrated expression. Commissioned in eighteen eighty-five, this statue captures the man who spent decades publishing The Liberator, a newspaper dedicated to the immediate abolition of slavery. While he faced violent mobs and constant threats during his life, he remains here in quiet repose, anchored by the weight of his own convictions in bronze.