Tracing Nathan Johnson in Census Records
Nathan Johnson was an African American who is best known for welcoming Frederick Douglass into his house on Douglass’s first night of freedom in New Bedford, Mass. In the late 1830s, Johnson was a member of the Universalist church in New Bedford, then served by the staunchly abolitionist minister John Murray Spear. A few years … Continue reading Tracing Nathan Johnson in Census Records
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