Local Scholar Talk with Julia Green: Frederick Douglass & the Lynn Abolitionists
Thursday, February 16, 7-8:30pm (Snow date February 23, 7-8:30pm) at the Lynn Museum (590 Washington St., Lynn).
In the 1830s the fight to end slavery captured Lynners’ imaginations and moved the then small town onto the national stage as a hotbed of the abolitionist movement. It was for that reason that Frederick Douglass came to Lynn in 1841 to work in the fight to end slavery. In his five years in Lynn, Douglass became internationally known as an abolitionist leader, intellectual author, andescaped slave who still did not have his freedom. Local scholar, Julia Greene, will discuss the rise of the abolitionist movement in Lynn’s Quaker community, Frederick Douglass’ time in Lynn and the local and international activism and campaigns he and the Lynn Abolitionists took part in to fight racism in the north and slavery in the south. Learn the national abolitionist leaders’ ties to Lynn including: William Lloyd Garrison, Abby Kelly Foster, Wendell Phillips, Sojourner Truth and the Grimke sisters; and how Lynn’s Hutchinson Family and noted leaders, James N. Buffum, Alonzo Lewis, Francis and Henry Newhall, John Bassett Alley all played roles in the movement.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
