On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...
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>> FOUNDED IN 1791, IT IS THE OLDEST HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA WITH A RENOWNED COLLECTION. WE WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THREE YEARS FOR ONE PARTICULAR PIECE TO COME BACK TO BOSTON TO ITS HOME AT THE ...
TED: FOUNDED IN 1791, IT'’ THE OLDEST HISTORICAL SOCIETINY AMERICA, WITH A WORLD RENOWNED COLLECTION. WE WAITED PATIENTLY THOUGH FOR THREE YEARS FOR ONE PARTICULAR PIECE TO COME BACK TOOS BTON TO ITS ...
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While Frederick Douglass invigorated abolitionists with his eloquent prose, many of his contemporaries, still enslaved or recently freed, scrawled barely legible letters to friends and family sold to ...
When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...