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Nathaniel Booth (slave) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nathaniel Booth (slave) Nathaniel Booth (1826-1901. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) African American, escaped slave. ==Escape From Slavery== Nathaniel Booth was born a slave on a Virginia Plantation in February 1826. At the age of 17 Booth escape and sought freedom in the North. Arriving about 1844, he settled in Lowell, Massachusetts and opened a barbershop on the first floor of the Middlesex Mechanics Association Block located on Dutton Street.〔Lowell City Directories, 1845-1847, Lowell, Massachusetts.〕 In 1849, Edwin Moore (also an escaped slave from Virginia) joined Boott in business as hairdressers.〔Lowell City Directories, 1849, Lowell, Massachusetts.〕 It was not unusual for African American barbers and hairdressers in New England to be active in Abolitionism and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Their barbershops were often gathering places for black and white abolitionist organizing efforts to end slavery. Together, they planned fundraising fairs, arranged visiting anti-slavery lectures, and help escaped slaves.〔Boston African American National Historic Site, "Abolitionist Leaders and Heroes of Boston." http://www.nps.gov/boaf/learn/education/upload/Leaders-and-Heroes.pdf.〕
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