Hutchinson Family Singers
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The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s. The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, socia
Ten of the Hutchinsons, 1845 l.t.r. Asa, Andrew, Jesse, Joshua, David, Caleb, Noach, Judson, Zephanaiah .
"The Old Granite State" sheet music cover, c. 1843.
Sheet music for "Get Off the Track", by the Hutchinson Family, 1844
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which G
Hutchinson Family Singers
…the Hutchinsons had become vocal abolitionists. Asa Hutchinson wrote: About this time [1843] an antislavery convention was held in Milford attended by Wm. Lloyd Garrison... The custom at once enlisted the sympathies of the young men. Accustomed to roam at freedom among their own Hills, they abhorred slavery and pitied…
Garrison, c. 1870
Portrait of Garrison by Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1833
Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison in The Century Magazine
Anne Whitney, William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, Massachusetts Historical Society