garrison began his newspaper career as an apprentice compositor for the "newburyport herald." he became involved in the anti-slavery movement in the 1820s, and over time he rejected both the american colonization society and the gradualist views of most others involved in the movement. garrison co-founded "the liberator" to espouse his abolitionist views, and in 1832 he organized out of its readers the new-england anti-slavery society. this society expanded into the american anti-slavery society, which espoused the position that slavery should be immediately abolished.