Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Slave whip, 1864

"… "Scrap & Sketch Book" drew an illustration of two slave whips and a slave being whipped. Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote that he…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"Atticus: A Fugitive Slave In the spring of 1837, a carpenter named James Sagurs was hired by Captain Daniel Philbrook of Camden and Edward Kelleran…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56

"… and a quite interesting discussion of a former slave who lived in Bangor and who explained to Martin and others what slavery was like, and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… tried to do to improve the lot of former slaves and others. Like his other volumes, the Scrap & Sketch Book is illustrated, often with watercolors…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… would cause an imbalance in the ratio of free-to-slave states, which was split equally at eleven states each."

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