Old Port in Portland in Cumberland County, Maine — The American Northeast (New England)
Friends (Quaker) Meeting House
Portland Maine Freedom Trail
Photographed By James R. Murray, August 6, 2016
1. Friends (Quaker) Meeting House Marker
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Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, Corner of Federal and Pearl Streets. Famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison started the Maine anti-slavery movement with a speech given here 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 anti-slavery riot occurred here during an 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.
Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, Corner of Federal and Pearl Streets. Famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison started the Maine anti-slavery movement with a speech given here 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 anti-slavery riot occurred here during an 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.
Erected 2007 by Maine Freedom Trails. (Marker Number 9.)
Location. 43° 39.564′ N, 70° 15.294′ W. Marker is in Portland, Maine, in Cumberland County. It is in Old Port. Marker is at the intersection of Pearl Street and Federal Street, on the right when traveling north on Pearl Street. Marker is located
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just inside the boundary of Lincoln Park at the intersection of Pearl and Federal Streets. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 75 Pearl St, Portland ME 04101, United States of America. Touch for directions.
William Lloyd Garrison who started the Maine anti-slavery movement with a speech given in 1832.
Photographed By James R. Murray, August 6, 2016
4. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, who along with Garrison, and Charles Remond were involved in a near riot in attempting to speak in 1847.
Photographed By James R. Murray, August 6, 2016
5. Charles Lenox Remond
Charles Lenox Remond, involved in the 1847 attack on the Meeting House.
Photographed By James R. Murray, August 6, 2016
6. Portland Maine Freedom Trail Friends (Quaker) Meeting House Marker
Henry Brewster Stanton, who's speech in 1836 resulted in Portland's first pro-slavery riot.
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