2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Laura Haviland, Underground Railroad
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US #5843
2024 Laura Haviland – Underground Railroad
• Honors Laura Haviland and his activities with the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves to freedom
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Underground Railroad
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: March 9, 2024
First Day City: Church Creek, Maryland
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Watermark: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag Applied
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate abolitionist, suffragette, Quaker, and Underground Railroad member Laura Haviland.
About the stamp design: Pictures a sepia-toned portrait of Laura Haviland along with eight lines of text which read: BLACK/WHITE; COOPERATION; TRUST/DANGER; FLIGHT/FAITH; COURAGE/RISK; DEFIANCE/HOPE; UNDERGROUND; RAILROAD/USA. Designed by Antonio Alcalá using an existing image.
Special design details: On the reverse side of the pane of 20, there is a map picturing routes taken on the Underground Railroad from the South to North. The reverse side also includes a list of people pictured on the stamps plus biographical information on them.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland.
About the Underground Railroad set: Pictures 10 people who made their way to freedom or helped others reach freedom through the Underground Railroad. Includes: Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, William Still, Harriet Jacobs, Jermain Loguen, Catherine Coffin, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglass, William Lambert, and Laura Haviland.
History the stamp represents: Laura Smith Haviland (December 20, 1808 – April 20, 1898) was an abolitionist, suffragette, Quaker, and member of the Underground Railroad. She was born in Canada, but her family moved to Lockport, New York, when she was a young girl.
Haviland was an avid reader from the time she was a child. She read everything she could get her hands on from religious books to historical documents. She recalled reading John Woolman’s history of the slave trade and the horrors it entailed: “The pictures of these crowded slave-ships, with the cruelties of the slave system after they were brought to our country, often affected me to tears… My sympathies became too enlisted for the poor negroes who were thus enslaved for time to efface.”
In 1832, Haviland helped found the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, the first anti-slavery organization in Michigan. She and her husband later founded the Raisin Institute for all children, “regardless of race, creed, or sex.” It was the first racially integrated school in Michigan. Despite initial objections by white students and their families, the school grew to become one of the best schools in Michigan Territory. Despite countless obstacles, including an epidemic that killed several members of her family, Laura Haviland spent her whole life working to help others.
US #5843
2024 Laura Haviland – Underground Railroad
• Honors Laura Haviland and his activities with the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves to freedom
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Underground Railroad
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: March 9, 2024
First Day City: Church Creek, Maryland
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Watermark: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag Applied
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate abolitionist, suffragette, Quaker, and Underground Railroad member Laura Haviland.
About the stamp design: Pictures a sepia-toned portrait of Laura Haviland along with eight lines of text which read: BLACK/WHITE; COOPERATION; TRUST/DANGER; FLIGHT/FAITH; COURAGE/RISK; DEFIANCE/HOPE; UNDERGROUND; RAILROAD/USA. Designed by Antonio Alcalá using an existing image.
Special design details: On the reverse side of the pane of 20, there is a map picturing routes taken on the Underground Railroad from the South to North. The reverse side also includes a list of people pictured on the stamps plus biographical information on them.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland.
About the Underground Railroad set: Pictures 10 people who made their way to freedom or helped others reach freedom through the Underground Railroad. Includes: Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, William Still, Harriet Jacobs, Jermain Loguen, Catherine Coffin, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglass, William Lambert, and Laura Haviland.
History the stamp represents: Laura Smith Haviland (December 20, 1808 – April 20, 1898) was an abolitionist, suffragette, Quaker, and member of the Underground Railroad. She was born in Canada, but her family moved to Lockport, New York, when she was a young girl.
Haviland was an avid reader from the time she was a child. She read everything she could get her hands on from religious books to historical documents. She recalled reading John Woolman’s history of the slave trade and the horrors it entailed: “The pictures of these crowded slave-ships, with the cruelties of the slave system after they were brought to our country, often affected me to tears… My sympathies became too enlisted for the poor negroes who were thus enslaved for time to efface.”
In 1832, Haviland helped found the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, the first anti-slavery organization in Michigan. She and her husband later founded the Raisin Institute for all children, “regardless of race, creed, or sex.” It was the first racially integrated school in Michigan. Despite initial objections by white students and their families, the school grew to become one of the best schools in Michigan Territory. Despite countless obstacles, including an epidemic that killed several members of her family, Laura Haviland spent her whole life working to help others.