Portland Freedom Trail: Secondhand Clothing Store of Lloyd Scott - Portland, ME
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A Portland Freedom Trail marker is located at the former site of secondhand clothing store of Lloyd Scott at 44 Exchange Street in Portland, ME.
Waymark Code: WM170P8
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2022
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Bronze and granite monuments mark the sites on 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 LLoyd Scott and a customer in the secondhand clothing store and the inscription:
SECONDHAND CLOTHING STORE OF
LLOYD SCOTT, 44 EXCHANGE STREET.
SCOTT BECAME VICE PRESIDENT OF
THE PORTLAND UNION ANTI-SLAVERY
SOCIETY IN 1842.
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SECONDHAND CLOTHING STORES WERE ESSENTIAL TO
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND BECAME SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESSES FOR MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS, PASSENGERS
ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NEEDED WARM
CLOTHING. ABOLITIONIST PAMPHLETS WERE SOMETIMES
STITCHED INTO CLOTHING GIVEN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN
SAILORS TO BE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.