Melissa Berry writes more about abolitionist families who acted as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes about abolitionist families who for many years acted as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... (Read More)
Melissa Berry continues her story about 2 brothers, William & Francis Jackson, who helped fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes about two brothers, William and Francis Jackson, who helped fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts... (Read More)
An article about the admission of Minnesota as the Union’s 32nd state on 11 May 1858 in the midst of the controversy over slavery... (Read More)
An article about the Connecticut Kansas Colony, an anti-slavery group preparing to settle in “Bleeding Kansas” in the mid-1850s to fight slavery... (Read More)
Maine became the 23rd state on 15 March 1820, its statehood part of the balance between pro- and anti-slavery forces known as the Missouri Compromise... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for using “Information Wanted” newspaper ads for African American genealogy... (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook searches old newspapers to learn about Sojourner Truth, including her meeting with Abraham Lincoln in October 1864... (Read More)
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