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Whittier the Reformer From Essex County to Dover Warrant
A retrospective on John Greenlief Whittier born in Haverhill Massachusetts December 17 1807 and his abolitionist and reforming career. The piece cites his Quaker roots and life in Essex County noting his editor roles in Boston Hartford and Philadelphia and his anti slavery stance. It includes the 1662 Dover warrant targeting Quakers and Whittier s poem How the Women Went from Dover as inspired by colonial mistreatment and ends with Whittier s child life poem The Barefoot Boy reflecting on early joys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Greenlief Whittier
Haverhill
Massausetts
Birh
Whittiers
Haverhill Academy
Boston
New England Weekly Review
Hartford
George D. Prentice
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania Freeman
Philadelphia
Whittier
Essex County
Amesbury
Danvers
Hampton
America
Major Waldron
Dover
Salisbury
Newbury
Rowley
Ipswich
Wenham
Lynn
Roxbury
Dedham
Anne Coleman
Mary Tomkins
Alice Ambrose
Richard Walprox
Cocheco
George R. Carpenter