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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.

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After the 'King of the Underground Railroad' Escaped From Slavery, He Led 1,500 Others to Freedom

History

Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

History

After the 'King of the Underground Railroad' Escaped From Slavery, He Led 1,500 Others to Freedom

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Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

fromAxios

Civil rights group documents 70 alleged "modern-day lynchings" across 7 Southern states

The moment a case is ruled a suicide, it's no longer investigated as a potential homicide. It defies logic to assume someone climbed eight or nine feet into a tree with a noose around their neck and hanged themselves. These cases deserve thorough homicide investigations from the start to ensure justice and accountability.

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fromThe New Yorker

What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, banned the slave trade in D.C., and enacted the Fugitive Slave Act with federal enforcement.

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.

fromThe Atlantic

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.

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.

fromwww.theguardian.com

The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery

Enslaved Africans and their descendants across the Americas mounted the largest, longest-running, and most diverse sustained insurrection for freedom from the 1500s to the 1800s.

fromFortune