The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, has been awarded a second $300,000 grant from the William M. Wood Foundation of Boston to expand the collections of the Portuguese American Digital Archive (PADA) at UML’s University Library (Center for Lowell History). Thanks to the first award from the Wood Foundation […]
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Ed Brennen Born a slave on a Virginia plantation in 1826, Nathaniel Booth escaped at age 17 and sought freedom in the North. He arrived in Lowell around 1844 and opened a barbershop on Dutton Street.Â
When Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, making it a crime to aid âFreedom Seekers,â Booth briefly fled to Canada. But in 1851, Boott Cotton Mills Agent (CEO) Linus Child raised $750 from the Lowell community to purchase Boothâs freedom.
Thatâs just one example of the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements that existed in Lowell two centuries ago â movements that are chronicled in âUntold Lowell Stories: Black History,â an online research guide recently published by the UMass Lowell Libraryâs Center for Lowell History.