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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
In 1849, Virginia slave Henry Brown (1815-???) escaped to freedom in such a way that he became an immutable subject of Underground Railroad lore. Brown was a skilled slave; however, he became virulently dissatisfied with slavery when his family was sold. Brown befriended Samuel Smith, a merchant, who observed that Brown’s skill with tobacco could […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom Absalom Jones and Richard Allen founded the Free African Society on April 12, 1787. Members of this organization like The African Mutual Aid Societies pledged to establish schools, attend the sick, bury a member decently if he had not left money for his funeral, to help the widow and children […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Nigel Benn was a boxer from London known for his devastating punching power. He was so hyper-aggressive in the ring that he was a terror the middleweight and super middleweight divisions for almost a decade. In the course of his career, he became known as “The Dark Destroyer.” Amateur Origins Born January 22, 1964, […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Edwin Augustus Harleston was an African-American painter associated with the Charleston Renaissance. He was also the first president of the Charleston, South Carolina, chapter of the NAACP, and a businessman. Harleston was born in Charleston on March 14, 1882, to the shipper-turned-mortician Edwin Gailliard Harleston and Louisa Moultrie. Harleston won a scholarship to the Avery […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the life of a slave known only as Priscilla. As just a young girl, Priscilla was purchased at a slave auction in South Carolina by a rice planter, Elias Ball. She arrived on Ball’s South Carolina rice plantation in 1756, alone, without family. Ball valued children as a long-term investment. […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Thomas Garrett (1783-1871), a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, commenced his work helping fugitives in the 1820s. Garrett unabashedly gave life to his abolitionist ideals. He used his wife’s family fortune (she was from a banking family) to fund the freedom of more than fourteen hundred fugitives, whom he typically delivered into the hands of the […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee was a historically black college. The university was founded in 1866 as the Nashville Institute by the American Baptist denomination, which established numerous schools and colleges in the South. Renamed for Roger Williams, the founder of the First Baptist Church in America, it became the largest Baptist college in […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
Born 1785 in Saint Domingue, Jean-Louis Michel was known as the father of modern fencing in France. By the end of his life, he was known as the foremost authority on fencing of the 19th century and had trained soldiers and influential people alike. In Service to Napoleon Fencing was a part of Jean-Louis Michel’s age […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
By Lesley Gist, The Gist of Freedom Mary, Free, Educated & A Spy! Disguise… Confederate White House Slave Mary was the best as she was working right in The Confederate President’s home. She had a photographic mind. Everything Mary saw on the Rebel President’s desk, she could repeat word for word. “Ellen Bond” was neither […]
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Mar 29, 2021 08:00 am
It was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who had the idea to use nonviolent protest to do for the poverty-stricken what he and other civil rights leaders had done for disenfranchised blacks. After King’s assassination, his successor at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, saw the project through. The first demonstrators […]
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