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Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton, on October 16, 1831. [4] When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was only 18 months old, Stanton's mother married John Brown, [5] an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio, for his participation in the Underground Railroad.
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Society: 1. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the “Father of Black History,” started the first Negro History Week in 1926 to ensure students would learn Black history. It grew into Black History ...
Members of the Chatham community were notified in September 1858 that a white man was traveling with a black boy through Canada and to Detroit, Michigan. W. R. Merwin transported a 10-year-old boy [9] or teen Sylvanus Demarest on a train from London, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. [10] [11] [12] He was also known as Venus. [4]
Detroit City Is the Place to Be (1st ed.). New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5. Woodford, Arthur M (2001). This Is Detroit, 1701-2001. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814329146. Sugrue, Thomas J (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Sociedad Abolicionista Española, founded 1864 (Spanish) Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787–1807? (British, aka Abolition Society) Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 1823–1838 (British, aka Anti-Slavery Society)
The issue of cross-district busing profoundly polarized metro Detroiters in the early 1970s after courts ruled students should be transported between the city and 53 suburban districts to equalize ...
The treaty did not change the status, though, of 300 existing slaves who lived in Detroit in 1795. [8] Catholic priests owned slaves and a slave helped build the Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit in 1800. [4] Enslaved people helped build the city of Detroit. [4] Enslaved people generally slept on their slaveholder's kitchen floors. [4]