The Abolition Garrison in Danger, & the Narrow Escape of the Scotch Ambassador

Anti-abolition print celebrating the 1835 attack on William Lloyd Garrison in Boston by "gentleman of property and standing" preceding his scheduled speaking engagement before the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Depicts Garrison at the center of an angry mob of white men. He has a noose around his neck and his newspaper "The Liberator" in his pocket and yells, "Help Children of Africer - help brothers." Scottish abolitionist George Thompson, who was originally announced to be giving a speech at the interracial women abolitionist's meeting, flees the scene attired in a "woman's clothes". Thompson states with a Scottish burr that he will not be a "Martyr in sie black cause." He did not attend the actual event. As the mob screams, "Down with the incendiary abolitionists," and calls for Garrison's lynching and arrest, Garrison is being pulled by the noose by several of the rioters and steps upon editions of the "Evening Post" and "Human Rights," serials sympathetic to the abolitionist cause.