All posts tagged "Lemuel Shaw"
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8.1KMassachusettsBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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8.5K6MassachusettsRobert Roberts Tells All – About How To Be a House Servant in 1827
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as an African-American servant. He was good at his...
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5.1K3MassachusettsBoston Ladies Free the Child Med From Slavery
A six-year-old girl named Med changed the course of history when she left her home in Louisiana on May 1, 1836. She...
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8.1K2Crime and ScandalJust One Kind of Murder in the 1850 Parkman-Webster Case
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
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