Abstract
ANTE-BELLUM Boston was a well-known center for social reform and antislavery activity. As the home of William Lloyd Garrison and his Liberator and such nationally prominent reformers as Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner, Boston had a well-deserved reputation for being one of the most liberal cities in the country. Devotion to personal freedom and human rights had, by the nineteenth century, become traditional in many fine old Beacon Hill families. The reform impulse of brahmin families atop Beacon Hill has been well illuminated. Yet, there was an equally strong tradition of social protest and community action burning on the lower slopes which has been only dimly revealed.
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