Slavery and Abolition in 19th Century Maine, Carol Gardner's Divided North

Описание: Presented through a cooperative effort of the Lincoln County Historical Association and the Old Bristol Historical Society.

When you think of slavery’s role in American history, Maine is probably not the first state that comes to mind. Yet Maine was bitterly divided over slavery, and her citizens played key roles in supporting and undermining the institution.

Carol Gardner discuses her discuss her book 'The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery' which traces two Maine families, one Black and one White, as they navigate the turbulent nineteenth century.
They are the Rubys who were well-known anti-slavery activists, and Underground Railroad operatives and the Gordons who were prominent ship masters—among them the only American executed for participating in the
transatlantic slave trade. The experiences of these families reveal what it meant to live in a free state during the age of slavery.

Carol Gardner earned a Ph. D. in English from The Johns Hopkins University and taught at Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest and Florida State Universities. She has published fiction and nonfiction in a wide variety of books and periodicals, and is the author of the 2019 narrative history, The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World. She lives in
Alna, Maine.