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At some time in the 1780s, after the U.S. achieved independence, Point du Sable settled on the north bank of the Chicago River close to its mouth. [ 24 ] [ n 3 ] The earliest known record of Point du Sable living in Chicago is an entry that Hugh Heward made in his journal on 10 May 1790, during a journey from Detroit across Michigan and through ...
A bronze bust of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable by Erik Blome is installed in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1] History. The work was installed in 2009. [2]
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved: African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: May 2022 [9] Emancipation and ...
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Whitney Plantation Historic District, near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana; The Good Darky in n Natchitoches, Louisiana [21] Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument in Alton, Illinois [22] The Florida Slavery Memorial at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee; Harriet Tubman Memorial in Manhattan in New York City
Statue of Robert Geffrye: London: Robert Geffrye was an English merchant who made part of his wealth from slavery, and part-owned a slave ship. A petition was raised for the removal of his statue outside the Museum of the Home; the Museum elected to "reinterpret and contextualise" the statue in its current location. [14]
For nearly 100 years, Robert E. Lee's 10,000-pound monument rode high over the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, it's been melted into bronze slabs and another memorial in town has risen to ...
For over 300 years, British ships forcibly transported more than three million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, and the City of London was the financial centre of the trafficking.