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Boston African American National Historic Site

Edmund Jackson
  • Type: Person

Boston merchant and abolitionist Edmund Jackson served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Eliphalet W. Jackson
  • Type: Person

Clergyman and merchant Eliphalet W. Jackson participated in the abolition and temperance movements and served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

Labor Reforms of the Port Royal Experiment
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Paying wages to the formerly enslaved people served two purposes for the government officials developing the Port Royal Experiment. It helped to provide a solution of where people should live. Wages also began to put cash into the hands of people who had toiled this land for generations. Many sought to use that cash to secure that land for themselves.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

The Port Royal Experiment
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A few weeks after the Battle of Port Royal, US soldiers and sailors came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

Series: The Port Royal Experiment
  • Type: Article

In the fall of 1861 after the Battle of Port Royal, the US military came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status. Newly freed Black South Carolinians were active participants. They demanded access to programs to support labor reforms, land redistribution, quality education, and military service.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

Education During the Port Royal Experiment
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Education is important for understanding the goals of the Port Royal Experiment, both for the missionaries who established them and for the formerly enslaved people enrolling as students.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

Land Ownership: An Effect of the Port Royal Experiment
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Learn how the Confiscation Act and Revenue Acts of 1861 set the stage for land reform in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Land reform that would allow formerly enslaved people to purchase land that generations would cherish.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site preserves and interprets Cedar Hill, where Frederick Douglass lived from 1877 until his death in 1895.

Julia Ward Howe
  • Type: Person

Reformer and writer Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the American Civil War and the "Mother's Day Proclamation" (1870). She advocated for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and peace.

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Cuba Vassall
  • Type: Person

Cuba Vassall was the matriarch of a family that included abolitionists and community builders. As she navigated slavery and freedom in Massachusetts, Cuba advocated for her own and her family’s interests. In comparison with many formerly enslaved women of her era, Cuba Vassall’s life is relatively well documented.

Jude Hall
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Jude Hall enlisted in Exeter, New Hampshire into Capt. Jacob Hinds' company, in Col. James Reed’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Boston African American National Historic Site

David Howland
  • Type: Person

Boston merchant David Howland served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Ebenezer Hunt
  • Type: Person

Doctor and abolitionist Ebenezer Hunt likely served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Charles F. Hovey
  • Type: Person

Boston merchant and abolitionist Charles F. Hovey served in both the 1846 and 1850 Boston Vigilance Committees.

Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
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The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is located at the southern edge of Anacostia Park and carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River into Washington, D.C.

Independence National Historical Park

“The Liberty Bell.” in The Anti-Slavery Record – February 1835
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In February 1835, a contributing writer to the abolitionist monthly publication "The Anti-Slavery Record," visited the Pennsylvania State House and looked closely at the State House Bell. This is a summary of their thoughts on the visit.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Maria W. Stewart
  • Type: Person

Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto. Her calls for Black people to resist slavery, oppression, and exploitation were radical and influential.

Charles Street Meeting House
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Built in 1807, the Charles Street Meeting House served generations of worshippers both as a Baptist church and later as an African Methodist Episcopal church. Throughout its history, the Charles Street Meeting House acted as a space for social activism.

Boston National Historical Park

Crispus Attucks
  • Type: Person

As the first victim of the Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks became a symbol of the Black freedom struggle in the United States.

George Middleton House
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George Middleton led the Bucks of America, a local Black militia during the American Revolution. After the war, he became an activist and community leader, helping found the African Society and serving as the 3rd Grand Master of the Prince Hall Masons.