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When Frederick Douglass visited Lowell in 1844, he was 25 or 26 years of age and had escaped from slavery five years earlier. His first visit to Lowell was in 1843. He visited Lowell to lecture two more times after the end of the Civil War.
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself.
Boston: At The Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill, 1845.
Contents of this webpage -
Article in The Liberator, Friday March 1, 1844
People and places mentioned in the Liberator and Herald of Freedom articles
Article in the Herald of Freedom, March 1, 1844, Volume 10, Issue 2
Rev. Naylor – Rev. John G. Naylor, Pastor, Third Baptist Society
Rev. Hanks – Rev. Stedman Wright Hanks, Pastor, John Street Church (Congregationalist)
N. P. Rogers – Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Editor, Herald of Freedom
W. L. Garrison – William Lloyd Garrison, Publisher, The Liberator, Collection – The Liberator
W. A. White – William Abijah White, Obituaries
John A. Collins – John Anderson Collins
Rev. Miner – Alonzo A. Miner, Pastor, Second Universalist Church, Market Street
Rev. Brewster – Pastor, First Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bartlett Street
Rev. Johnson
Elder Thurston – Nathaniel Thurston, Pastor, Second Freewill Baptist Church, Colburn Street
“A whole team” of the Hutchinson songsters – Hutchinson Family Singers.
Illustrated sheet music cover - Library of Congress
Get off the Track, one of The Hutchinson Family Singers most famous songs, was first performed at this convention in Lowell. Sheet music and lyrics. The song.
John Clement
Dr. Scribner - Isaac W. Scribner (1808 – 1864), physician, office Shattuck Street. Dr. Scribner was the author of Review of the Rev. U. C. Burnap's sermon on Bible servitude.
Places
Colburn Street Chapel - Second Freewill Baptist Church
Two details from the 1841 map of Lowell.
The Second Freewill Baptist Church is number 16, on Colburn Street between Merrimack and Moody Streets.
"new Universalist Meeting House" - Third Universalist Church
Two details from the 1845 map of Lowell.
The Third Universalist Church is number 20, on the corner of Merrimack and Central Streets
From the Herald of Freedom, March 1, 1844, Volume 10, Issue 2
Please note: The article about the Lowell Convention by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers was continued in the March 8, 1844 Herald of Freedom. It is difficult, but not impossible, to read because of the quality of the reproduction.
