My name is William Lloyd Garrison, i was born December 12, 1805. In 1818 when i was only 13 years old i started my journalism with a 7 year apprenticeship as a writer and editor under Ephraim W. Allen, the editor of the Newburyport Herald. It was during this apprenticeship that I would find his my calling. I realized that there is a problem that majorly needs to be addressed. From there on i had my eyes set. Through my various newspaper jobs, i soon acquired the skills to run my own newspaper. After I finished his apprenticeship in 1826, when I was 20 years old, to open my own newspaper i borrowed money from my former employer and purchased The Newburyport Essex Courant. I renamed the paper the Newburyport Free Press and used it as a political
