In 1839, a young black sailor named James Covey held the key to freedom for 53 Africans who appeared in a Spanish...
When the unfinished Washington Monument was still but an eyesore on the National Mall, William Wetmore Story tried to prevent it from...
In 1831, Simeon Jocelyn thought New Haven would be the perfect place to start a college for educating negroes. New Haven disagreed....