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Austin-born playwright probes the elusive nature of freedom in ‘Box’ at Undermain Theatre
The Dallas troupe is producing Jarrett King’s drama about Henry Brown, who escaped enslavement in Virginia to become a famous ...
You’re Dead to Me - Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist, suffragist, preacher
Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-Century America by Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth.
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Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
His father recognized one catcher and fled, leaping 20 feet from a bedroom window, according to an account from Garnet's friend, abolitionist Alexander Crummell. His mother escaped to a nearby ...
In Saratoga lecture, abolitionist Frederick Douglass criticized Quaker minister who said slaves better off than free Blacks
African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and a ...
Patrisse Cullors Transforms Sunset Boulevard Into a Call to Rest
The billboard, much like the work itself, is confrontational in its stillness. It asks observers to unlearn. To unlearn the ...
Mass. city was home to abolitionist who celebrated his birthday on Valentine's Day
A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick ...
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Black history in ten minute episodes, with connections to Upstate New York
For the last five years, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, NY, has been publishing dozens of ...
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Exploring the history of Susquehanna Co.‘s abolitionist roots
As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...
A look at abolitionist efforts in Prince George’s County — from the stage
Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought a number of slaves. And those contradictions, and the families involved ...
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Mass. city was home to abolitionist who celebrated his birthday on Valentine's Day
He came right to the street, uh, which was dotted with homes of abolitionist leaders, and it was right. Right here they they first grew *** family, got *** job, attended church services ...