All posts tagged "prisons"
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6.1KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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5.2K2ConnecticutHorror Stories About Revolutionary Prisoners Inflame the Colonies
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
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4.2K1Arts and LeisureFat Culls, Gingerbreads and Outrunning the Constable – 10 Ways to Describe the Rich in Colonial Times
It’s a rich man’s world. It was as true in the 1700s as it is today, and there were plenty of colorful...
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21.4K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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13.0KArts and LeisureA Christmas First for New England? Each State Can Claim One.
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
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27.1K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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26.8K15New HampshireThe Sensational Surrender of Four Nazi U-boats at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
On May 15, 1945, onlookers tried to glimpse the first of four Nazi U-boats towed up the Piscataqua River to surrender at...
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9.4K17MassachusettsRichard Crafus, Black Captive King of the War of 1812
During the War of 1812, more than a thousand African-American prisoners in Dartmoor Prison toed the line set by a tall, powerful...
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10.9K6MassachusettsPeter Edes, Apprentice Printer, Imprisoned by the British
Peter Edes, 18, ended up in prison on June 19, 1775, after he caught the attention of the British Regulars by watching the Battle...
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5.6K11MassachusettsTwo Different Bostons Shaped Malcolm X and MLK (Pt. 1)
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
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