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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison’s militance initially inspired hostility even
in his native New England, where a mob once came close
to hanging him. But inevitably he was most hated in the
South. Beginning in 1831, Georgia had a standing offer
of a $5,000 reward for his capture. Garrison sat for this
portrait just before he left for England in 1833 to raise
money for a school for free blacks. Reluctant to pose
at first, he declared the picture a “tolerable likeness”
at its completion but predicted that “those who imagine
that I am a monster, on seeing it will . . . deny its
accuracy, seeing no horns about the head.” |
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Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796–1881)
Oil on wood, 1833
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Bequest of Garrison Norton
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