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A white mob in Ohio denied land to hundreds of former slaves, a lawmaker wants to right that wrong
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoDuring the height of summer in 1846, a mob of white Mercer County residents surrounded a group of...
Juneteenth: What is it; what to know about the holiday that celebrates slavery’s end
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 5 hours agoFor more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United...
NYC bird group drops name of illustrator and slave owner Audubon - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 6 days agoBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist ...
Project to unearth history of enslaved people turns up more than 4,000 records in Macon
Macon Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe collection contains information on a national scale, allowing the public to trace enslaved...
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIt was generally assumed that his father was the white owner of the plantation. At the age of 20,...
A push to mark the buried history of ‘harrowing’ slave prisons near Busch Stadium
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 4 days agoThousands of people were once held in underground slave prisons in St. Louis, where Busch Stadium...
Ron English: Maximizing the meaning behind Juneteenth (Opinion)
The Charleston Gazette· 6 days agoJuneteenth appropriately comes before July Fourth to raise our awareness that the reality of racism...
Disney+ premieres Nat Geo’s ‘Clotilda’ documentary about descendants of America’s last slave ship -...
WTOP Washington· 3 days ago“In 1808, the slave trade had been made illegal, so nobody was supposed to be bringing ships across...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
Before Juneteenth
The Atlantic· 8 hours agoIn a quiet corner of a library at Mississippi State University, you’ll find a slim red volume that tells the story of what may be America’s first...