All posts tagged "Sheffield Mass."
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7.8K1Science and NatureFighting for Independence During a Smallpox Epidemic: Lake Champlain in 1776
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
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14.1K8MassachusettsQuock Walker, 28, Kicks the Legs Out From Under Slavery in Massachusetts
In 1781, Quock Walker took to heart the new idea that all men are born free and equal, and that everyone is...
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13.9K9MassachusettsElizabeth Freeman, Illiterate Slave, Wins Freedom and Honor
Elizabeth Freeman couldn’t read the Massachusetts Constitution, but she understood its declaration that ‘all men are free and equal’ applied to her....
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