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The Remarkable True Story of the Couple Who Posed as Master and Slave to Escape Bondage
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA portrait of Ellen Craft in the book 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.' Credit - Public Domain...
'Important effort': Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force works to connect projects
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 4 months agoArt Wilson said he can't number the people he has seen moved to tears or simply walk away from an...
Did the Confederates have a point, kind of? Here's a hint: not really
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoRobert E Lee statue removal Eze Amos/Getty Images There’s no doubt that Australian law professor...
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
Justice Alito's abortion opinion puts America on a path toward further division | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMany Americans may find it increasingly difficult to convince their international peers that the...
In the mountains of Northern Mexico, descendants of formerly enslaved people have celebrated...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA woman stands in El Nacimiento de los Negros.Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty...
Letters to the editor for Sunday, October 29, 2023
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLetters to the editor should be 250 words or less. Include your name and city or community of residence. Guest opinions should be 600 words or less and...
Texas history museum dissects treaty that ended Mexican American War and changed the world
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBe honest: What do you really know about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? The accord that formally...
California task force suggests reparations in report detailing lasting harms of slavery
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople line up to speak during a California Reparations Task Force meeting at Third Baptist Church...
They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 'Master Slave Husband Wife,' Ilyon Woo follows a wife and husband who escaped by posing as a white man and his caretaker, then fought for abolition.