All posts tagged "emancipation"
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7.9K1MassachusettsFrederick Douglass’ Fifth of July Speech Asks ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the popular name of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on the...
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14.2K20MassachusettsLewis 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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25.8K10MassachusettsHow the Slave Trade Took Root in New England
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
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9.1K1Politics and MilitaryPeace Goes to War In 1861: Isaac Peace Rodman at Antietam
Six generals died in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. Perhaps the least likely military leader in the group was Isaac Peace...
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10.1K7MaineMaine’s Elijah Lovejoy: The First Casualty of the Civil War
On November 7, 1837, Henry West – a shop owner in Alton, Ill. – needed a peaceful solution to an armed standoff...
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10.7K12MassachusettsAbraham Lincoln Responds to the Little People’s Petition From Concord, Mass.
The little people’s petition was signed by 195 children in Concord, Mass., asking President Lincoln to free all slave children. When Lincoln...
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