• “I now find that I could have landed in no other part of the United States, where I should have found a more striking and gratifying contrast to the condition of the free people of color in Baltimore, than I found here in New Bedford….Here in New Bedford, it was my good fortune to see a pretty near approach to freedom on the part of the colored people.”

    Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)

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Restorations

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Important Figures

Quick Historical Links

Massmoments.org  – An Electronic Almanac of Massachusetts History

The Black Past – An Online Reference Guide to African American History

Mass Memory Road Show – Gallery of Family and Community History in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Underground Railroad related:
www.nps.gov – National Parks Service
www.davidrugglescenter.org

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