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3 weeks agoThis West Virginia Tavern Was A Civil War Hangout Spot For 2 US Presidents - Tasting Table
Foster's Main Street Tavern in Beckley, West Virginia, operated as Davis Cottage during the Civil War where Union generals William McKinley and Rutherford B. Hayes strategized before both became U.S. presidents.
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4 weeks agoThe Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President
William Grimes's 1825 autobiography was the first fugitive-slave narrative in American history, exposing slavery's brutality while asserting enslaved people's humanity and intellect against America's founding contradictions.
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1 month agoTracing Harvard's ties to slavery: Recovering names and histories - Harvard Gazette
Researchers identified over 1,300 formerly enslaved people connected to Harvard and hundreds of living descendants by examining probate records, tax lists, estate inventories, and family histories.
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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months agoSamuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book
Samuel Green, a free Black Marylander aiding runaways, was arrested for possessing Uncle Tom's Cabin under a law banning 'abolition pamphlets,' becoming an abolition hero.
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1 month agoCommemorate Presidents' Day With 15 Images That Celebrate the Founding Fathers
Observed on February 22, George Washington's birthday, Presidents' Day became a holiday in 1885. In 1971, the day evolved to recognize all presidents, namely Abraham Lincoln, who was born on February 12. Still a federal holiday 140 years later, Presidents' Day is a time to reflect on the nation's leaders, who have shaped life for its citizens and affected the world in immeasurable ways-for better or worse.
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2 months agoWhat Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favorites
Television, not feature films, has provided the most compelling and frequent portrayals of the American Revolution, notably series like Turn, John Adams and Franklin.
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2 months agoThe British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories
On August 7, 1823, 19 enslaved people in Barbados became the property of the British crown after their enslavers died without legal heirs. These individuals had names, families and histories that stretched across years of shared survival under slavery. They included Quow and his son, Caesar; Orange and her son, October; and Abel and Lubbah and their children, Thomas, Kitty and Becky. There were also four sisters-Deborah, Sukey, Betsey and Polly-and their brother, Thomas, along with their children.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoHow I Traced My Ancestor's Journey From Slavery to Freedom
The librarian sat me in front of a microfilm reader and brought out roll after roll of film. I stayed there for hours, squinting to decipher the archaic handwriting in the Free Negro Book, which was published annually in South Carolina before the Civil War. The names in each year's edition were alphabetized, but only roughly-all of the surnames starting with A came before all of the surnames starting with B, but Agee might come before Anderson, or it might come after.
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