Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Slave whip, 1864

"… "Scrap & Sketch Book" drew an illustration of two slave whips and a slave being whipped. Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote that he…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"Atticus: A Fugitive Slave In the spring of 1837, a carpenter named James Sagurs was hired by Captain Daniel Philbrook of Camden and Edward Kelleran…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 3, pages 38-56

"… and a quite interesting discussion of a former slave who lived in Bangor and who explained to Martin and others what slavery was like, and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… tried to do to improve the lot of former slaves and others. Like his other volumes, the Scrap & Sketch Book is illustrated, often with watercolors…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thus balancing the number of free and slave states in the nation."

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"My family or people I know could be involved as slaves or they might have owned slaves. We wouldn't have the rights to a lot of things that we have…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… would cause an imbalance in the ratio of free-to-slave states, which was split equally at eleven states each."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… named "Bangor." Dangerous Currents "The hunter of slaves, in our day, does consign them to perpetual slavery and often to punishment." Enoch Pond…"