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American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. That year Roger Leavitt, Hart's father, accepted the nomination of the newly formed Massachusetts Liberty Party to run for state Lieutenant Governor on an abolitionist ticket. Hart Leavitt's mother Chloe had begun circulating a petition demanding the abolition of slavery in the
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Leavitt graduated from Hopkins Academy, which his brother Roger Hooker Leavitt attended as well. The rest of his life he devoted to his substantial business affairs, handling his family's landholdings and serving in the town, county and state government. Leavitt eventually relocated
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December 1836 the Franklin County Anti-Slavery was formed, tying together the strands of regional abolitionist sentiment. Merchant Hart Leavitt was a representative to the meeting. By 1840 Hart's father Roger was president of the Franklin County Anti-Slavery Society, and a co-founder with his son
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Leavitt seems to have been increasingly politically active from the mid-1830s onward. By the late 1830 Hart Leavitt was using his Charlemont farm as an Underground Railroad station, shuttling a succession of fugitive former slaves, the most prominent of whom was
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Leavitt operated a store next door to his uncle Jonathan's law office. The store was the location for Greenfield's first newspaper and post office.
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228:"The Road to Freedom: Greenfield and the Underground Railroad, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, starrcenter.washcoll.edu"
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252:"Proceedings of the New York Anti-slavery Convention, Held at Utica, October 21, and New York Anti-slavery State Society, Held at Peterboro', October 22, 1835"
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Freedom: Anti-Slavery Activity in Greenfield, Greenfield Human Rights Commission, the Greenfield Historical Commission, starrcenter.washcoll.edu
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401:"Hart Leavitt House, Mass Network News, Volume Four, Number 1, January 2005, National Park Service, nps.gov"
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