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Maine’s Abolitionist 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

Radical Mainers: Robert Benjamin Lewis – Maine’s Afro-Indigenous Liberation Pioneer

Radical Mainers: When Portland’s Waterfront Resounded with the Songs of Black Maritime Workers

Radical Mainers: The letter that Launched the Racial Justice Movement in Maine

Radical Mainers: William Lloyd Garrison’s Spirited Speaking Tour of Maine

Radical Mainers: Abolitionists & Colonizationist Square Off for the the Great Portland Colonization Debate of 1833

Radical Mainers: Mainers in the Moral Crusade Against Slavery, Part One

Radical Mainers: Mainers in the Moral Crusade Against Slavery, Part Two

Radical Mainers: Maine Agents of Abolition

Radical Mainers: The Founders of Maine’s Early Anti-Slavery Organizations

Radical Mainers: When British Abolitionist George Thompson Clashed with Augusta’s “Mobocracy”

Radical Mainers: ​Maine’s Anti-Slavery Societies Fight to Unite

Radical Mainers: Woke Students Clash with Conservative Waterville College President

Radical Mainers: Elijah P. Lovejoy: The Anti-Slavery Martyr from Maine, Part 1

Radical Mainers: Elijah P. Lovejoy: The Anti-Slavery Martyr from Maine, Part 2

Radical Mainers: Elijah P. Lovejoy: The Anti-Slavery Martyr from Maine, Part 3

Radical Mainers: The Power of Portland’s Black Voters in the 19th Century

Radical Mainers: When Black Mainers Joined the National Black Freedom Movement

Radical Mainers: A Progressive School Reform Movement Sweeps Maine

Radical Mainers: When Portland Schools Segregated Black Children

Radical Mainers: How Maine’s First Black Church Overcame Division And Unified Black And White Portlanders

Radical Mainers: Rev. Amos Freeman And A New Era For Black Organizing In Portland

Radical Mainers: Rev. John W. Lewis And His Free Will Baptist Crusade Against Slavery

Rev. John W. Lewis: From Black Temperance To The Abolitionist Movement

Radical Mainers: Fissure Of Abolitionist Movement Leads Rev. Lewis To Black Activism In Maine

Radical Mainers: Black Leaders Gather for the First Colored Convention in Maine

Radical Mainers: The Black Millerites of Maine & The Great Disappointment

Radical Mainers: Rev. William Munroe’s Crusade for Equal Education

Radical Mainers: Birth of the First Interracial Academy in New England

Radical Mainers: The Students of New England’s First Interracial Co-Ed Academy

Radical Mainers: The Destruction of the First Interracial Co-ed Academy in New England

Radical Mainers: The Destruction of Noyes Academy: Aftermath

Radical Mainers: The Northern Anti-Abolitionist Counterrevolution

Radical Mainers: Evangelical Abolitionist Agitation in Maine

Radical Mainers: The Radical Congregationalists of Maine’s Abolitionist Movement 

Radical Mainers: The Maine “Apostle of Peace” Who Imagined the United Nations

Radical Mainers: White Moderates in Maine Seek a “Middle Course” on the Slavery Question 

Radical Mainers: A “Reign of Terror” Against Free Speech in Maine

Radical Mainers: Atticus: The Black Asylum Seeker Who Set Off a Political War Between Maine and Georgia

Radical Mainers: A “Fugitive” Slave’s Tale: From Childhood Trauma in Bondage to Freedom in Maine

Radical Mainers: Colonial Era Mainers Opposed the Recapture of Refugee Slaves 

The Saga of Henry Van Meter: War Veteran, Privateer & Asylum Seeker; Part 1

A Multi-Racial Mutual Aid Network: The Underground Railroad

Jim Matthews: From Childhood Torture to Asylum in Hallowell

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