Category: Pittsfield

• Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

  

  The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.  

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1840s, graves & memorials, Pittsfield, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1842, abolition, Frederick Douglass, grave, moses norris Jr., Pittsfield, slavery