It was a snowy January night in 1832 when a meeting was held to found the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Two young abolitionists associated with NEASS—the white William Lloyd Garrison and the Black William Cooper Nell—bucked the tide of segregation in Boston. They went on toiling to end slavery and racial inequality while forging a close, working friendship that lasted through their deaths, half a century later. When they were both interred in Forest Hills Cemetery.
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