Home of Amos Noë and Christiana Williams Freeman
Portland Freedom Trail
First full-time called minister of the Abyssinian Meeting House 1841-1852
Rev. Freeman (1809-1893) was an instructor in the school maintained for African Americans in the Abyssinian Meeting House. As conductors on the Underground Railroad, the Freemans maintained both their home and the Meeting House as safehouses for freedom seekers. After they left Maine, Christiana Freeman (1812-1903) was a director of the Colored Orphans Asylum in New York City. During the Draft Riots of 1863, she was instrumental in saving many childrens' lives
Marker is at the intersection of Federal Street and Hancock Street, on the left when traveling south on Federal Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
