Rodney French Monument

Title:: Rodney French Monument
Description:: Black and white photo of granite memorial set on large slab of rock; plaque set into grant block reads: "IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF HIS/ DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF THE SLAVES/ HIS WORK FOR THEIR DELIVERANCE/ FROM BONDAGE AND HIS AID AND/ ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE FREEDMEN:/ THIS TABLET HAS BEEN PLACED HERE BY/ THE COLORED PEOPLE OF NEW BEDFORD/ IN MEMORY OF/ RODNEY FRENCH/ 1802-1886 [sic]/ ABOLITIONIST - FRIEND OF THE NEGRO/ MAYOR OF NEW BEDFORD 1853 & 1854/ 'HE BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH'/ MCMXXIV." Mounted to cardboard trimmed to image size.
Date:: [ca. 1926]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: New Bedford Free Public Library
Main Library, room 309, cabinet U07, shelf SH10, container BX14:F022 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Photograph Collection
Subjects:: Abolitionists
Politicians
Monuments & memorials
Abolition movement
Mayors, New Bedford
French, Rodney, approximately 1802-1882
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Extent:: 1 photograph : print
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