Portland Freedom Trail - Friends (Quaker) Meeting House - Portland, ME
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N 43° 39.564 W 070° 15.295
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A Portland Freedom Trail marker at Lincoln Park at the corner of Federal and Pearl Streets marks the site of the Friends Meeting House where William Lloyd Garrison started the Maine anti-slavery movement in 1832.
Waymark Code: WM10M2D
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 05/26/2019
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Thirteen bronze and granite monuments mark the Portland Freedom Trail. The trail is: "Dedicated to the countless thousands of men and women who fled the bonds of slavery but were recaptured or died at the hands of their pursuers before they reached the safe embrace of the Underground Railroad."
The monument contains a bronze relief image of a conductor leading runaway slaves via the underground railroad at night. It is inscribed:
PORTLAND FREEDOM TRAIL
MAINE FREEDOM TRAILS ESTABLISHED 2007
Below is a bronze plaque which has an image of the Friends (Quaker) Meeting House and the inscription:
FRIEND (QUAKER) MEETING HOUSE,
CORNER OF FEDERAL AND PEARL
STREETS. FAMOUS ABOLITIONIST
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON STARTED
THE MAINE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
HERE WITH A SPEECH GIVEN IN 1832.
_____________________________________________
GARRISON ADVOCATED "IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION
WITHOUT COMPENSATION" TO THE SLAVE-OWNERS
INSTEAD OF COLONIZING FREE AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO
LIBERIA. IN 1836 PORTLAND'S FIRST PRO-SLAVERY RIOT
OCCURRED HERE DURING AND ANTI-SLAVERY SPEECH BY
HENRY BREWSTER STANTON. THE MEETING HOUSE WAS
ATTACKED AGAIN IN 1847 WHEN ABOLITIONISTS
GARRISON, FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND CHARLES LENOX
REMOND ATTEMPTED TO LECTURE. ANTI-SLAVERY WOMEN
SUCCESSFULLY PROTECTED THE SPEAKERS.