Portland Freedom Trail: Home of General Samuel C. Fessenden - Portland, ME
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A Portland Freedom Trail marker is located at the former site of abolitionist General Samuel Fessenden's house on India Street in Portland, ME
Waymark Code: WM170GP
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2022
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Bronze and granite monuments mark the sites on the Portland Freedom Trail. The trail is: "Dedicated to the countless thousands of men and women who fled the bonds of slavery but were recaptured or died at the hands of their pursuers before they reached the safe embrace of the Underground Railroad."
The monument contains a bronze relief image of a conductor leading runaway slaves via the underground railroad at night. It is inscribed:
PORTLAND FREEDOM TRAIL
MAINE FREEDOM TRAILS ESTABLISHED 2007
Below is a bronze plaque which has an image of a General Samuel C. Fessenden and the inscription:
HOME OF GENERAL SAMUEL C.
FESSENDEN 31 INDIA STREET.
FESSENDEN WAS A PASSIONATE
SUPPORTER OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY
SOCIETY AND OF PORTLAND'S
AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
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FESSENDEN WAS THE LEADER OF MAINE'S ANTI-SLAVERY
MOVEMENT. IN 1832 HE HEARD WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
SPEAK AND BECAME A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF THE ANTI-
SLAVERY SOCIETY. HE RAN FOR GOVERNOR OF MAINE ON
THE ANTI-SLAVERY TICKET. FESSENDEN'S HOME WAS A
STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.