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Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
South Jersey had multiple stops on the Underground Railroad. Where are they?
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNOTE: This story originally appeared online Feb. 8, 2022. Many people know the story of Harriet...
The tragic story of the Battle of Negro Fort
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPlantation owners swapped lurid tales of armed fugitive slaves running wild and fomenting rebellion. They soon lobbied Washington to eradicate the...
Slavery's legacy is written all over North Jersey, if you know where to look
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don't share the South's brutal...
Free communities offered tenuous grip on safety in era of slavery
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 5—The law was passed in Washington D.C., but it set off tremors that shook the ground in Mercer County and destroyed a community. In Washington, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part ...
A 1787 federal law forbade slavery in Ohio, but African Americans here still faced abuses
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe history of African-Americans in Columbus and central Ohio is a long and complex story....
Ashland Memories: Underground Railroad 'tracks' crossed Ashland County
The Times-Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhile the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt directly by God, enslaved people since have...
'King of the Underground Railroad' Jermaine Wesley Loguen born in Maury Co.
Columbia Daily Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe history of Maury County, Tennessee amazes me, in that it often reaches far beyond the bounds of...
Ashland Memories: Rev. George Gordon and the Free Presbyterian Church
The Times-Gazette via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe “vexed question” of slavery agitated the Presbyterian churches of Savannah during the 1840s and...
Fort Worth wants students to learn more about government. A Texas law makes it tricky.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 4 months agoConcerns regarding a state law passed in 2021 put an end to efforts begun by Fort Worth’s Task Force...