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For a 1998 book, Lewis created twenty vibrant 7-by-5-inch watercolor paintings. In one of the paintings, Lewis makes her point using a real-life Black heroine, Sojourner Truth, the African American abolitionist and feminist who escaped slavery. [10] In the illustration, Truth advises one of the book's characters to “Follow your own North Star.”
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
In Illinois, for example, while the trade in slaves was prohibited, it was legal to bring slaves from Kentucky into Illinois and use them there, as long as the slaves left Illinois one day per year (they were "visiting"). The emancipation of slaves in the North led to the growth in the population of Northern free blacks, from several hundred in ...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is a 2021 nonfiction book written by author Clint Smith and published by Little, Brown. The work examines the slavery in America. The text includes visits to a variety of historical landmarks/monuments and describes how each entity depicts the history of American ...
By 1819 there were exactly 11 free and 11 slave states, which increased sectionalism. Fears of an imbalance in Congress led to the 1820 Missouri Compromise that required states to be admitted to the union in pairs, one slave and one free. [60] In 1831, a rebellion occurred under the leadership of Nat Turner, that lasted four days. During the ...
From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little ...
The earliest evidence of African-American art in the United States is the work of skilled craftsmen slaves from New England. Two categories of slave craft items survive from colonial America: articles that were created for personal use by slaves and articles created for public use.
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