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Photographer: Joel Seewald
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: Far Upper Left Image
Additional Description: Laura Haviland 1808-1898 Laura Haviland is one of Lenawee County's most instrumental figures in the Antislavery-Underground Railroad movments. Originally a Quaker, Mrs. Haviland left the faith because she did not believe the Quaker views on antislavery were as adamant as hers. In Laura Haviland's 1881 autobiography "A Woman's Life Work" she describes helping many fugitive slaves escape to freedom. In addition Mrs. Haviland founded the Raisin Institute, a school that always enrolled African Americans (along with whites) which made it unique in Michigan in the 1830s.
Submitted: May 4, 2017, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p381677
File Size: 3.858 Megabytes

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