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Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it

CNN 29 Mar 2025
Do we take down the Lincoln Memorial? I think we need a more nuanced view, one that recognizes that values evolve.” While Lincoln spoke out frequently against slavery, his position on what should happen to freed slaves wasn’t so clear.
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Newport's founder left slaves at least $1.7M in today's dollars. Can descendants collect?

Courier Journal 27 Mar 2025
Lawmakers have been trying to pass reparation bills for descendants of slaves ... Perrone has compiled more than a half-dozen cases, including Taylor's, where slaveowners freed and left money or land to their slaves.
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Soham church restoration project could take it off risk register

BBC News 27 Mar 2025
The 12th Century church hosted the 1792 marriage of Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave whose autobiography was crucial to the abolitionist movement ... Rev Eleanor Whalley, the Vicar of Soham, said ... Mr Calladine said ... .
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Andre Johnson: America is at a crossroads | COMMENTARY

Baltimore Sun 27 Mar 2025
Harford County and the United States stand at a defining moment ... If some wish to discard the term, so be it ... The numbers don’t lie ... The first followed the Civil War, promising economic empowerment to freed slaves — promises that were swiftly broken ... .
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The chilling warning from a suburb where armed parents in combat gear walk their kids ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
It was the first self-governing black municipality north of the Mason-Dixon line — a one-time stop on the underground railroad where the descendants of freed slaves could escape redlining and climb the property ladder ... OhioDonald Trump. .
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Why parents are walking their kids to school armed and in combat gear in an ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
It was the first self-governing black municipality north of the Mason-Dixon line — a one-time stop on the underground railroad where the descendants of freed slaves could escape redlining and climb the property ladder ... OhioDonald Trump. .
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Former serf's new life in Xizang

China.dot.org 25 Mar 2025
In old Xizang, Palmo's life was fraught with hardship ... In March 1959, people in Xizang launched a democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom and freed a million serfs. Former serfs and slaves like Palmo's family ushered in the dawn ... .
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Homeownership Has Always Impacted American Democracy

Time Magazine 25 Mar 2025
Sherman had promised freed slaves “40 acres and a mule,” in the hopes of breaking southern land concentration and empowering newly emancipated Blacks as fully free citizens with valuable economic resources.
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In pics: former serf's new life in Xizang

Xinhua 24 Mar 2025
In old Xizang, Palmo's life was fraught with hardship ... In March 1959, people in Xizang launched a democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom and freed a million serfs. Former serfs and slaves like Palmo's family ushered in the dawn ... .
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InXizang | Palmo: Former serf recalls hardship in old Xizang with tears

Xinhua 24 Mar 2025
In old Xizang, Palmo's life was fraught with hardship ... In March 1959, people in Xizang launched a democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom and freed a million serfs. Former serfs and slaves like Palmo's family ushered in the dawn ... Send ... .
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From ‘Tootsie’ to ‘Six’: The 12 can’t-miss shows on Portland stages this spring

The Oregonian 24 Mar 2025
Later, a trio of Black voices weave uniquely American histories grounded in three different decades ... That’s No Lady”) ... “Tootsie” — Stumptown Stages ... The bounty hunter captured Loomis and other freed slaves, forcing them to work in post-Abolition South.
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Things to do in the Chattanooga area this week include ‘Hadestown,’ ‘Dreamgirls,’ Jewish documentary

Chatanooga Times Free Press 23 Mar 2025
The current record of 5,190 was set in London in 2011, but officials hope to bring the title back to Macon, where the musical instrument was invented in the 1840s by freed slave Alabama Vest.
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Trump has vowed to end birthright citizenship. Can he do it?

Business Ghana 17 Mar 2025
How did it start? ... However, it did not become part of the Constitution until 1868, when the 14th Amendment was passed in the wake of the US Civil War in order to settle the question of the citizenship of freed, American-born former slaves ... .
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Howie Carr: Reflecting back on hacks this St. Patrick’s Day

Boston Herald 15 Mar 2025
Nobody asked me but.. On days like this, with the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast on tap, I almost miss Billy Bulger. Almost. At Halitosis Hall, whenever then-Rep ... Sen ... News item ... Gov ... They lost, and the Republicans freed all the Democrats’ slaves ... 5.
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Black Heritage Day: More Than Just a Concert \u2013 Enriching Minds Through Agriculture, Nutrition, and ...

Houston Forward Times 13 Mar 2025
“That name came from us because we were slaves, and they used to call us ‘boy’ and tell us to go get the cow ... As Ghaffar explained, watermelon served as a vital source of hydration for slaves during long workdays.
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