Tag: abolition

• Resolved

  

  Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …

  Marek

  23 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religion

  1800s, abolition, alcohol, baptist, Milford, prayer, school, slavery, temperance

• Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, government, NH history, religion, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical

  abolition, congress, petition, sandwich, slavery

• 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