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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...
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...
Boston And Militarism: The Fugitive Slave Hearings
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 decade agoThe second historically significant incident involving Boston and a government-ordered lockdown came during the fugitive slave hearing of Anthony Burns...
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....
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
16 women abolitionists you may not know about
Stacker via AOL· 3 months agoLibrary of Congress // Getty Images; Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images It is an egregious fact that forced labor has long been a practice in...
Opinion | The States Will Soon Be at Each Other’s Throats Over Abortion
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn May 24, 1854, Anthony Burns, an enslaved man who had escaped from Virginia, was arrested in Boston. According to the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1850, enslaved people who ...
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBlack fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad, Photo 12/Universal Images Group via...
'Important effort': Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force works to connect projects
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 3 months agoArt Wilson said he can't number the people he has seen moved to tears or simply walk away from an...
The 113-Year-Old Law Behind Anti-Abortion Activists’ Latest Scheme
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCould driving someone to get an abortion soon be an act punishable by law? It’s not out of the...
