by Andy O’Brien In 1819, just months after John Brown Russwurm entered Hebron Academy, his studies were cut short when a fire burned down the school’s main building. Historian Carl Patrick Burrowes has raised the question of whether it was… Read More »The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist, Part II
by Andy O’Brien Sometime during the winter of 1815, a mixed-race boy named John Brown arrived at a stately farmhouse in the Back Cove neighborhood of Portland. It was the first time the 15-year-old had had a chance to see… Read More »The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist
Radical Mainers: Strikers and Business Tyrants of Colonial Maine Radical Mainers: Servants and Slaves in Colonial Maine Radical Mainers: Motley Crews of Revolutionary Maine Radical Mainers: A Squatter Revolt in Backcountry Maine Radical Mainers: The End of Slavery in Maine… Read More »Maine’s Labor Movement
Radical Mainers: The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist Radical Mainers: The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist, Part II Radical Mainers: From Abolitionist to Colonizer – The Life of John Brown Russwurm… Read More »Maine’s Abolitionist Movement
Radical Mainers: Strikers and Business Tyrants of Colonial Maine Radical Mainers: Servants and Slaves in Colonial Maine Radical Mainers: A Brutal Race War Brews in Colonial Maine Radical Mainers: A Race War Rips Through Southern Maine Radical Mainers: A Race… Read More »Slavery & Colonization
