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Freedom Seekers, the Underground Railroad & St. Anne’s Lowell

Lowell's early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New England and immigrants from Europe wove what Black people from slave-holding states in the South picked. One vehement opponent of slavery was the first rector at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. Theodore Edson, who offered the church as a stop on the Underground Railroad in the pre-Civil War era. Edson and his work with the abolitionist movement was the topic of a discussion held Feb. 23, 2025 in the chapel at St. Anne’s. In a presentation titled “Freedom Seekers, the Underground Railroad and St. Anne’s Lowell,” Jacquelynn Coles, representing the Black Lowell Coalition, and Robert Forrant, a professor of history at UMass Lowell, explored the role the church played in the abolitionist movement. #EpiscopalChurchesLowell