In March 1863, two months after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There’s more to celebrate on Jan. 1 than the start of a new year. It’s ...
"It's really important to me that my children know the history of the country." As the country commemorated Juneteenth, thousands of people lined up outside the National Archives in Washington on ...
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, in theory liberated all slaves in states that had joined the Confederacy. In practice, however, the proclamation was ...
In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured ...
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