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Fort Scott National Historic Site
Bleeding Kansas: A Stain on Kansas History
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In the 1850s, conflict arose over whether Kansas should be a free or slave state. People who felt strongly about the issue from all perspectives converged on Kansas Territory. Compromise was elusive as people on both sides employed violence to bring about their ends.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Derby House
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Built in 1762 as a wedding present, this was the home of Elias Hasket Derby (1739-99) and Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby (1727-99) for the first 20 years of their marriage. They lived here with their seven children and enslaved at least two people of African descent. The Derby family became one of Salem’s wealthiest merchants, their wealth was tied to their trade in goods produced by slave plantations in the Caribbean Islands.
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John Rutledge, lawyer, politician, and jurist, notably led South Carolina as her longest war-time governor during the American Revolution. Rutledge was one of four South Carolinian delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and helped defend the interests of the southern slave-holding elite.
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John Laurens, born to a wealthy planter family in South Carolina, received a republican education in Switzerland and England. Upon his return to South Carolina to fight in the American Revolution, he radically proposed to recruit slaves as soldiers in return for their freedom. An aide-de-camp to General Washington and later a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army with a field command, he served bravely in many key battles, only to die in a meaningless skirmish in 1782.
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Led by Reverend Leonard Grimes, Twelfth Baptist Church became known as the "Fugitive Slaves' Church" in Beacon Hill.
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The Revere House Hotel, which used to stand here at Bowdoin Square, has unique ties to the Underground Railroad history of Boston. Senator Daniel Webster spoke here to defend his views of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the slave catcher looking for Anthony Burns also stayed here.
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While residing at 62 Pinckney Street, George and Susan Hillard assisted freedom seekers. They notably hid Ellen Craft in their home when slave catchers sought to arrest her and her husband, William.
Independence National Historical Park
Reverend William Jackson’s Involvement in a Fugitive Slave Hearing
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This features a bust-length photographic portrait of Rev. William Jackson and about his involvement in a trial for William Henry Taylor, a freedom seeker, related to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 held in Independence Hall.
Independence National Historical Park
A Thanksgiving Sermon in St. Thomas, or the African Episcopal Church - January 1, 1808
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Absalom Jones, founder and pastor of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, preached "A Thanksgiving Sermon" on January 1, 1808 in recognition of the "Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves." In his sermon, the Reverend Jones proposed that January 1—the first day of the ban on the importation of slaves into the United States— be observed each year as a day of public thanksgiving.
Independence National Historical Park
1799 Petition of Absalom Jones, and Others, People of Color, and Freemen Against the Slave Trade to the Coast of Guinea
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This was a 1799 petition written by Absalom Jones and 70 other free Black American men in Pennsylvania to Congress. They wrote to end the international slave trade, the abolition of slavery, and the protection of free Black people from kidnapping.
Boston African American National Historic Site
F. Brimblecom
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In his "Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Day in Boston," Austin Bearse lists F. Brimblecom in the membership roster of the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee, an organization dedicated to helping those escaping slavery to and through Boston on the Underground Railroad.
Boston African American National Historic Site
F. A. Brimblecom
- Type: Person
In his "Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Day in Boston," Austin Bearse lists F. A. Brimblecom in the membership roster of the Boston Vigilance Committee, an organization dedicated to helping those escaping slavery to and through Boston on the Underground Railroad.
Boston African American National Historic Site
Erastus E. Andrews
- Type: Person
According to the membership roster in Austin Bearse’s "Reminiscences of the Fugitive Slave Law Days in Boston," Erastus Andrews participated as a member of the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.
Boston African American National Historic Site
John A. Bolles
- Type: Person
Boston-based lawyer and public servant John Augustus Bolles served as a member of the Vigilance Committee, an organization dedicated to fugitive assistance that formed in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
Independence National Historical Park
A History of the Trial of Castner Hanway and Others – November, 1851
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This is an account of the trial for Castner Hanway, a white American man charged with treason for not obeying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He did not support marshals in arresting several African American people supposedly staying in a home in Christiana, Pennsylvania who were seeking their freedom from their Maryland enslaver. The trial took place in a second-floor court room in the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall.
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Ellwood House
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Ellwood was a slave plantation dating to the 1790s. During the Battle of Chancellorsville, this building was a Confederate field hospital. During the Battle of the Wilderness it was the headquarters for US Generals Warren and Burnside. Though most famous because Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson's amputated left arm is buried in the family cemetery, the house has many more stories to tell. The house is open seasonally.
Lowell National Historical Park
Lyddie: Chapter 12 - I Will Not be a Slave
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Lyddie quickly becomes one of the mill’s top workers. She is given more looms to tend and is making more money than ever.
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On the morning after Lincoln's death in 1865, sixty-year old Charlotte Scott, a former Virginia slave living in Ohio, donated five dollars to her employer and asked that it be used toward a monument for the president. A campaign among freed slaves raised $18,000 for the memorial. Frederick Douglass delivered the keynote speech at the monument's dedication on April 14, 1876, which was attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and other political figures. The Emancipation Monument
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
Kingsley Plantation
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The Kingsley Plantation was the home of Zephaniah Kingsley, a wealthy slave trader and plantation owner of Spanish Florida who held an entirely different view of slavery than his American peers. After Florida was annexed by the United States in 1821, Zephaniah was forced to take actions that would protect his property, ex-slave wife and his children from American law.
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He entered the Army as an illiterate ex-slave, but Moses Williams took advantage of the opportunities presented to him to become educated and also became a Buffalo Soldier who achieved one of the Army's highest honors during his military service career.