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Item 7346
Title: Maine Anti-Slavery Society report, 1836
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1836-10-27
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10227
Title: Letter from Charles Lenox Remond to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 18, 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1850-07-18
Location: Portland; Watertown
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10226
Title: Letter from Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth Mountfort, April 19, 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1850-04-19
Location: Portland; Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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Mainers, like residents of other states, had differing views about slavery and abolition in the early to mid decades of the 19th century. Religion and economic factors were among the considerations in determining people's leanings.
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Maine's black population has never been large, but blacks have lived and worked in communities large and small throughout the state since early colonial days.
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William Ladd, the Apostle of Peace
William Ladd of Minot, a former ship captain and cotton farmer, wanted to abolish slavery, believed in temperance and other causes, but even more passionately, he wanted nations to agree to international peace. He was the founder of the American Peace Society in 1828.