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On this date: Pennsylvania abolishes slavery (sort of)
WHTM via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers...
Toronto's Yonge-Dundas square is being renamed. Here's what it'll be called — and why
CBC via Yahoo News· 5 months agoToronto city council voted Thursday to rename Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square and recommended...
People Are Sharing Historical Figures Who Are Actually Pretty Problematic, And I Had No Clue About...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI recently shared this Reddit thread about beloved historical figures who have done some pretty...
2 officials resign from Yonge-Dundas Square management team after council changes name
CBC via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTwo members of the management board that runs Yonge-Dundas Square have resigned after Toronto city...
Opinion/Chaput: DeSantis claim on slavery points to a need for history education
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoErik Chaput is the co-creator of the Dorr Rebellion Project website:...
German parliament signs off on 2024 budget after late wrangling
dpa international via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe German parliament or Bundestag finalized its 2024 budget on Friday, agreeing to keep the...
How and where to celebrate Juneteenth in South Jersey
Burlington County Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis year marks the 157th celebration of Juneteenth and its second year as a federal holiday. But, despite recent attention to marking and honoring the true ending of slavery across the United ...
April 18, 1688: The Germantown Petition against slavery
WHTM via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoGERMANTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the early movers and shakers of...
Juneteenth's fellow emancipations, and what 'freedom' then meant
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
How Abraham Lincoln Broke the Barrier Between Church and State
Politico via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn September 1862, weeks before he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln wrestled with the enormous dilemma of whether to change the stakes of the Civil War. As he ...