On the first day of 1851, marking the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Liberator, a crowd gathered to honor Garrison. He tried to turn aside the adulation with humor. Presented with a gold watch, “he joked that if it were a rotten egg he would know better how to receive it.” Source: Henry Mayer, in All on Fire.
William Lloyd Garrison, a bit of humor
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