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The modified National Park Service site now showcases stamps of Tubman and civil rights leaders while removing explicit ...
By Fred Nunes Fred Nunes, now retired, lectured at the University of the West Indies and worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the ...
Ellen Smith Craft famously escaped by disguising herself as a white gentleman traveling with her husband William, captivating abolitionist ... in Boston’s Liberator newspaper.
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Park webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...
documents granting individual slaves their freedom and newspapers such as William Lloyd Garrison’s militant Liberator, the first in the United States to call for immediate abolition. And they ...
The colors and shapes of the preceding mural inspired the left side of the new piece to provide some uniformity throughout the projects on the wall.
Forten began to use his influence to advocate for the abolition of slavery, helping fund and contributing to William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. Enslaved black people had ...
The Philanthropist, James Birney’s abolitionist newspaper, started in 1836. Thankfully someone saved these publications at the time. Then some wise librarians put the pages on microfilm ...
This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...