The Liberators - Part I

Destination Freedom. Destination Freedom. Dramatization of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own, Destination Freedom. There at some time exists a crisis in the history of a nation when great leaders are needed to prick the national conscience

conscience, and a pioneer of path towards the extension of human freedom. Such a crisis was the ascendancy of the slave power in 19th century America. Such leaders were a Massachusetts printer and a Boston lawyer, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips.

Their relentless and determined fight for the abolition of slavery in their day has made their names revered among the benefactors of mankind. The two part series entitled, The Liberators. Destination Freedom today brings you the story of the first of these abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison.

["The Liberators"] Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday afternoon, October 21, 1835. I was working in my law offices on Church Street. I didn't know how long I'd sat there before I heard the bells. But it seemed almost as though I'd been asleep, and the bells were awakeningly.

I looked at the calendar to see what holiday it was. Nothing was listed. I threw over the window. Down on another street, people were pouring out of their houses and rushing toward Wilts street like water, filling from a den.

Jumping, leaving, waving, cloudy. I ran downstairs and out into the streets. They swept me on like a tie, until I found myself in front of a carpenter's shop, where the crowd had stopped. Hey, hey look up there. There he is. There he is. I looked up. On the second floor of the shop, they were holding a man, a single man. Four men held him, heard