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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 weeks ago
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This Secret Passageway May Have Been Part of the Underground Railroad. Now, Preservationists Say It's in Danger

The Merchant's House Museum faces potential structural damage from a neighboring development threatening its historic integrity and a newly discovered tunnel linked to the Underground Railroad.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The 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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fromBiography
1 month ago
US news

A 200-Year-Old House Concealed a Historic Secret-a Hidden Passageway on the Underground Railroad

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from6abc Philadelphia
2 months ago

Part of Underground Railroad found in closet of New York City museum

A concealed closet compartment at the Merchant's House Museum served as an Underground Railroad hiding space, built into the 1832 home of abolitionist Joseph Brewster.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum

A hidden 2ft-by-2ft concealed space with a ladder at the Merchant's House indicates the building served as a pre–Civil War Underground Railroad safe house.
fromBiography
1 month ago
US news

A 200-Year-Old House Concealed a Historic Secret-a Hidden Passageway on the Underground Railroad

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fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Retelling Frederick Douglass' story, with a soundtrack - Harvard Gazette

A senior student composes an original musical about Frederick Douglass's early life, inspired by the abolitionist's writings on music's power during slavery.
US politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

Systematic efforts to erase Black history and undermine Black representation threaten Black dignity, agency, and collective meaning-making.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

How Not to Understand Slavery

Right-wing media downplays U.S. chattel slavery, portrays progressive critiques as exaggerated, and contrasts that sanitization with claims that slavery motivated American independence.
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months ago

A Stunning Escape From Slavery Told on Tattered Pages

Thomas White escaped slavery in Maryland before the Civil War, traveled north with abolitionist assistance to Massachusetts, and his detailed, rare testimony survived for study.
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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months ago

Samuel 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.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Unjust and inhuman': how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist's plea to end the slave trade

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano used his position as a Black domestic servant near royalty to petition the Prince of Wales against the transatlantic slave trade.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

How 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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fromFortune
2 months ago

How Trump erased the story of George Washington's slave, Ona Judge, who fled from Philadelphia to freedom | Fortune

Ona Judge escaped slavery from the Washingtons on May 21, 1796, slipping out of the President's House in Philadelphia to live freely in New Hampshire.
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