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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· 4 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
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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...
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.
There's another War Between the States coming over abortion
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court’s abortion ruling may set off disputes among states and the federal government...
Netflix’s ‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter’ Is an Afrofuturist Marvel
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA look inside the new Netflix animated series from Everett Downing Jr. and Patrick Harpin about an...
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 ...
California Has A Connection To Juneteenth You Probably Never Knew About
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1852, the California Supreme Court said the state constitution’s ban on slavery didn’t apply to...
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...
