Friends (Quaker) Meeting House - Portland, ME
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This plaque situated in one corner of the city park for Portland, told of how a speech by William Lloyd Garrison started the antislavery movement in Maine.
Waymark Code: WM78W1
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2009
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In Portland's city park, at the corner of the park by the intersection of Federal Street and Pearl Street, is a bronze marker that is part of the Portland Freedom Trail, established in 2007. On this marker is the following text:
Friend (Quaker) Meeting house, Corner of Federal and Pearl Streets. Famous Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison started the Main 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.
Address and /or location:
Corner of Federal Street and Pearl Street in the Portland city park.
Who put it there (Sponsor): Portland Freedom Trail/Maine Freedom Trails.
Date (Erected or Dediated): 01/01/2007
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