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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
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Never-enslaved people from Jamestown helped in emancipation
When history records the work of those who were abolitionists, the participation and contributions of free people of color is ...
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Harriet Tubman: The legacy of a freedom fighter and abolitionist
After the Civil War, Tubman relocated to Auburn ... A recently-found photograph of escaped slave, abolitionist and Union spy Harriet Tubman that was acquired by the Smithsonian is displayed ...
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From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
it is ironic that her own fame ended up drowning out the abolitionist associations of “pride and prejudice” after the Civil War. If there is any work of fiction that successfully makes self ...
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On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches
"An abolitionist and true patriot who sacrificed ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a major military operation when she guided 150 ...