All posts tagged "abolitionism"
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3.9KConnecticutAfrican American Medical Students at Yale
It’s an interesting photograph: serious-looking men in hats and suits, with a couple of human skulls among them. Taken in 1895, the...
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5.7KBusiness and LaborElleanor Eldridge, ‘Laboring Colored Woman,’ Wins Justice in 1838
Elleanor Eldridge was an African-American woman born free in Rhode Island because her father fought in the American Revolution. During a lifetime...
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8.5K3MassachusettsLewis Tappan, the Man Who Hired Abe Lincoln to Spy on Sinners
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
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7.8K1Politics and MilitaryRowland Hazard Gets 100 People Out of Jail for Free
Rowland Hazard was a well-known philosopher, politician and businessman, but he was proudest of something he did in the shadows: He released...
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8.3K2Business and LaborMashpee Teen James Mye Ends Slavery for Indian Children
James Mye, a poor Indian boy, was apprenticed to a Nantucket couple whose children treated him like a slave. The commonwealth never...
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26.7K9Connecticut6 Stops on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day and moved them...
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