Howe Lecture: Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Maine

Museums of the Bethel Historical Society, co-hosted with the Hastings Homestead Museum. Join us on Thursday, June 19 (Juneteenth) for a talk by Mary T. Freeman, Assistant Professor of New England History at the University of Maine on "Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Maine." Professor Freeman is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, with a focus on Maine and New England, and studies the social, political, and cultural history of slavery and emancipation. She is currently at work on a book which examines the role of letter writing in the nineteenth-century antislavery movement.