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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Ashland Memories: Underground Railroad 'tracks' crossed Ashland County
The Times-Gazette via Yahoo News· 12 months agoWhile the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt directly by God, enslaved people since have...
Orion Griffin: Today in history: D.C. abolishes the slave trade
The Newberry Observer, S.C. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 20—On September 20, 1850, the District of Columbia abolished the slave trade, making it illegal to buy and sell slaves in the nation's capital. Although it outlawed the trade, slavery was ...
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...
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...
First U.S. woman undertaker helped people flee slavery in coffins. Meet Henrietta Duterte
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I saw my mother raise a man from the dead.” Born enslaved, the man’s only way out of the American...
Get rid of the Andrew Jackson statues — and there’s a creative fix with his name, too | Opinion
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 10 months agoI was thinking: Why should we continue to honor our county’s namesake, President Andrew Jackson?...
