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A few weeks ago, the Sydney-based Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released an interesting report, warning that, ‘A ...
When a fugitive slave was caught in Boston in 1854, many civic leaders were outraged — but they wouldn’t challenge slavery ...
In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and ...
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It is arguable that forest slavery was less physically punishing than plantation slavery, but psychologically, being robbed of their language and culture, being born into a state where they were ...
History Knox .Each Saturday Mark Jordan authors a column reflecting on the community's history MOUNT VERNON — The founding fathers of this nation saw the storm clouds of the future, even as they were ...
In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...
The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.
In 1850, a number of free Black abolitionists began settling in the territorial city of St. Paul and helped with the freedom ...
The move is stirring up conversation in and outside military circles. Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine ...
Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with ...