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Underground Railroad: New Bedford’s Most Powerful Protest
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This virtual program will start at 6 PM and ends at 7 PM
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Underground Railroad: New Bedford’s Most Powerful Protest
Thursday, February 9th, 2023, at 6:00 PM
Online/Virtual, Zoom
Join Ranger Rufai as he shares with you seven of New Bedford’s agitators from the most powerful protest in its history -- Abolition. Local Leaders include Nathan and Mary “Polly” Johnson, William and Lucinda Clark Bush, William Still connected to New Bedford through his work in Philadelphia, the famed Henry ‘Box’ Brown, Captain of the Pearl, Daniel Drayton, Martha Gray Bush, the mother of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, and Andrew Robeson, Quaker Abolitionist.
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvde6pqjsvHtxBHF8VgKZ7Fkk5YGeGXYSQ
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