Race, Reuse, and Reform: Preserving the Garrison House, Contesting Garrisonianism in Turn-of-the-Century Boston

Abstract

Abstract In 1900, Black Bostonians purchased the Roxbury home of William Lloyd Garrison with the intent to preserve it as an antislavery memorial. As the St. Monica's Home for Colored Women and Children, the house immediately became a site of contestation between the followers of William Monroe Trotter and Booker T. Washington.