Franklin Sanborn
Posted on | August 14, 2009 | Comments Off
House and schoolroom (which he ran with Mary Mann, also an abolitionist) — Franklin Sanborn (one of the “Secret Six”) was an outspoken leader of the abolitionist movement and a frind and supporter of John Brown of the Harpers’s Ferry Raid. After John Brown was hanged, his daughters Annie and Sarah moved to Concord in 1860 and lived with the Alcotts, among others, while attending Sanborn’s School.Category: Historical Figures