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Description
The Rev. Austin Willey (1806-1896) was editor of the Maine Anti-Slavery Society newspaper Advocate of Freedom from 1839-1841, the Liberty Standard from 1842-1845, and the Portland Inquirer from 1851-1854.
He later wrote The History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in the State and Nation (1886). The image is the frontispiece of that book.
About This Item
- Title: Austin Willey, Portland, ca. 1885
- Creator: B. Thurston publishers
- Creation Date: circa 1885
- Subject Date: circa 1885
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: 326.4 W669; QJ 326.4 W669
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Antislavery movements--United States
- Willey, Austin, 1806-1896--Portrait photographs
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865
- United States--Antislavery movements--History
- Maine--Politics and government
- Clergy--Maine
- Editors--Maine
- Authors--Maine
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