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Born in Indiana as A. Macon Bolling, he moved to New England at some point in the early 1840s and changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen in Boston in January 1844. [1] Soon after, Allen moved to Portland, Maine and studied law, working as an apprentice to Samuel Fessenden, a local abolitionist and attorney. The Portland District Court rejected ...
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
The New England Freedom Association was founded in 1842 [1] or 1843, [2] and existed for about five years. Its founding members included William Cooper Nell, Henry Weeden, Judith Smith, Mary L. Armstead, Thomas Cummings, and Robert Wood.
Thirty-seven-year-old Dexter Wade was killed less than an hour after he left his mother’s home in Jackson, Mississippi on 5 March, NBC reports. As he walked across Interstate 55, Wade was ...
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Nell was born in 1816 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Louise Cooper, from Brookline, and William Guion Nell, from Charleston, South Carolina. [3] His father was an important figure in the abolitionist movement, having helped to create the Massachusetts General Colored Association in the 1820s.
John P. Coburn (1811–1873) was a 19th-century African-American abolitionist, civil rights activist, tailor and clothier from Boston, Massachusetts. [1] For most of his life, he resided at 2 Phillips Street in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.