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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
add to a prospective genealogy, and have yet much to learn, of one of whom the Baptist librarian said, A brief career; you will not find anything about him. He died a year and a century ago, but the spirit of service that led him into the work called others thither also. It was a none too popular calling. As we think of it, remember the colonists were free people of colour, going back to African soil to establish homes, a colony, eventually a nation, on this earth. Remember how Lydia Maria Francis' appeal for those Americans called Africans ostracized her here around Boston. Remember the scenes about the court house and down State street. Compare, if you will, the Mayflower of 1620 and its pilgrim colony, and try and picture the crew of the Vine with those white men, Sessions, Holton, and printer Force, with thirty-six dusky colonists, of whom was the regularly organized church, with the generous Boston outfit stowed beneath the one deck of the new and seaworthy brig Vine. Th