By Andy O’Brien Originally appeared in the July, 2023 issue of The Bollard On Aug. 16, 1834, Maine abolitionists put out the call to anti-slavery activists across the state to come to Augusta on the third Wednesday of October to… Read More »The Founders of Maine’s Early Anti-Slavery Organizations
By Andy O’Brien Originally appeared in the June, 2023 issue of The Bollard Colby College President Jeremiah Chaplin In June of 1833, the rabble-rousing abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison arrived at Waterville College (now known as Colby) for the last stop… Read More »Radical Mainers: Woke Students Clash with Conservative Waterville College
By Andy O’Brien Originally appeared in the April, 2023 issue of The Bollard. Late one evening in September, 1832, the rabble-rousing abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison disembarked from a ship in Portland Harbor. Garrison was fired up and ready to take… Read More »Radical Mainers: William Lloyd Garrison’s Spirited Speaking Tour of Maine
