Keywords: Anti-Slavery
Item 7485
Maine Anti-Slavery Society constitution, ca. 1833
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1833 Media: Ink on paper
Item 7346
Maine Anti-Slavery Society report, 1836
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1836-10-27 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Mainers, like residents of other states, had differing views about slavery and abolition in the early to mid decades of the 19th century. Religion and economic factors were among the considerations in determining people's leanings.
Exhibit
Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist
Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"The first president of the Bangor Anti-Slavery Society was John Godfrey. During the 1800's a fair number of African Americans made Bangor their home."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity
"The first Anti-Slavery Society in Maine was organized here in 1833, and a Temperance Society exerted a strong influence for many years."
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Slave's Dream"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
In December of 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery was published. "The Slave's Dream" is one of eight anti-slavery poems in the collection. A beautifully crafted and emotionally moving poem, it mesmerizes the reader with the last thoughts of an African King bound to slavery, as he lies dying in a field of rice. The 'landscape of his dreams' include the lordly Niger flowing, his green-eyed Queen, the Caffre huts and all of the sights and sounds of his homeland until at last 'Death illuminates his Land of Sleep.'
