{"id":383,"date":"2016-07-26T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:09:41","slug":"residents-of-north-slope-community-who-worked-in-abolition-acre-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/residents-of-north-slope-community-who-worked-in-abolition-acre-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of north slope community who worked in Abolition Acre area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often people who lived in the African American community of the north slope were in communication with folk in the area of Abolition Acre as their work was\u00a0 located there. John Coburn\u2019s clothing store at various times was on either Cornhill or Brattle Streets.\u00a0 Coffin Pitts, James Barbadoes, George Putnam, William Cooper Nell were among who shared work space in the area.\u00a0 Cordwainer Benjamin Roberts was on Washington Street at one time.\u00a0 Charles Tyler had his boot black shop on both Brattle Street and Wilson\u2019s Lane.\u00a0\u00a0 Henry Tyler had a clothing store on Brattle Street and other streets of the area.\u00a0 On this site you will see an ad telling of David Walker\u2019s clothing store, at 42 Brattle.\u00a0\u00a0 In the<em> Liberator<\/em> there are two references to Lewis Hayden with his clothing store at different times at 107 and 121 Cambridge Street, probably in the Acre area.\u00a0 (<em>Liberator<\/em>, Aug 3, 1849, and <em>Liberator,<\/em> April 1, 1851)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often people who lived in the African American community of the north slope were in communication with folk in the area of Abolition Acre as their work was\u00a0 located there. John Coburn\u2019s clothing store at various times was on either Cornhill or Brattle Streets.\u00a0 Coffin Pitts, James Barbadoes, George Putnam, William Cooper Nell were among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/residents-of-north-slope-community-who-worked-in-abolition-acre-area\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Residents of north slope community who worked in Abolition Acre area<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}