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Happy Birthday to Enoch Pratt (born September 10, 1808, #OTD), founder of #Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library (1886). Committed to welcoming Black #library patrons from the start: “The people, who I hope, will avail of the advantages it is my wish to offer them, they being for all, rich or poor, without distinction of race or color…” However, in the antebellum period he was a member of the American Colonization Society.
Image: https://www.loc.gov/item/2015645531/
Info: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25541141
@BaltimoreHistories I found out recently they tried the colonization thing in Haiti.
@legalquilts indeed, relating to the Haitian Revolution in an intriguing way