The Pleasure Boat was a reform journal published in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 during the mid-nineteenth century by the Quaker reformer and journalist Jeremiah Hacker

Jeremiah Hacker

Jeremiah Hacker was a reformer and journalist who lived and wrote in Portland, Maine from 1845 to 1866. Born in Brunswick, Maine to a large Quaker family, Hacker moved to Portland as a young adult where he worked as a penmanship instructor, a teacher, and a shopkeeper...

. Over the first seventeen years of publication (1845-1862) it went by the names The Pleasure Boat and The Portland Pleasure Boat; and some years later was revived under the new title The Chariot of Wisdom and Love

The Chariot of Wisdom and Love

The Chariot of Wisdom and Love was the second newspaper written and published by 19th-century reformer Jeremiah Hacker of Portland, Maine. Published between the years of 1864 and 1866, The Chariot of Wisdom and Love was a Spiritualist reform journal. The newspaper came to an end after the Great...

(1864-1866). Hacker, after moving to New Jersey

New Jersey

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in 1866, briefly returned to the "Boat" theme and published the short-lived journal Hacker's Pleasure Boat (1867). In all of his publications, Hacker promoted such causes as abolition, land reform, juvenile justice, and pacifism.