Maine Memory Network

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

"I was a slave then…” Although it was indeed Atticus, he was a free man under a new name and controlled a gang of stevedores (men who load ships)."

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"My family or people I know could be involved as slaves or they might have owned slaves. We wouldn't have the rights to a lot of things that we have…"

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."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… state, thus balancing the number of free and slave states in the nation. The Schooner "Pendleton Sisters," Islesboro, ca."

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