All posts tagged "sex"
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12.8K1Religion and Social MovementsThe Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
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9.1K1MassachusettsHarriet Jacobs, Enslaved, Tells of Her #MeToo Moments. No One Believes Her.
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
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12.2K3ConnecticutDavid Ruggles, the Go-To Conductor on the Underground Railroad
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
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17.4KConnecticutHartford’s Sex Workers of 1913: An Intimate Portrait
In 1913, a juicy report on Hartford’s 200 sex workers came into such demand that the city quickly ran out of copies....
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11.6K3ConnecticutUnequal Justice for the Gay Puritans of New Haven Colony
Gay Puritans in 17th century New Haven Colony were better off with money than without. Without wealth or social standing, they could...
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10.7KCrime and ScandalNew Hampshire’s Infanticides of 1739
The discovery of New Hampshire’s infanticides began on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1739, when someone discovered a dead infant girl in a well...
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