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e. The Free State Project (FSP) is an American political migration movement founded in 2001 to recruit at least 20,000 libertarians to move to a single low-population state (New Hampshire was selected in 2003) in order to make the state a stronghold for libertarian ideas. [1][2] The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that the Free State Project ...
The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. [1] It is the only archeologically verified African burying ground for the time period in New England.
Prince Whipple. Prince Whipple (c. 1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman. He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784. Prince is depicted in Emanuel Leutze 's painting Washington Crossing the ...
The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [15] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [16] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [17] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [9] New Jersey
Foster was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, on November 17, 1809. His parents Sarah and Asa Foster had twelve children, Stephen was the ninth. The family attended the local Congregational church, and took part in Canterbury's anti-slavery society. [1] Foster apprenticed to a carpenter but left at age 22 to study to become a missionary.
In the 1770s, enslaved black people throughout New England began sending petitions to northern legislatures demanding freedom. 5 Northern states adopted policies to at least gradually abolish slavery: Pennsylvania in 1780, New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1783, and Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784.
Hulu's 'The 1619 Project' examines the impact of slavery on America today. Chris Vognar. June 16, 2023 at 6:45 AM. Nikole Hannah-Jones created "The 1619 Project," which began as a collection of ...
After the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail was first established in the 1990s, it eventually included 24 sites within the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. [4][5] The trail began in an effort to make the history of black people visible to residents and visitors to Portsmouth. [6] As of 2024, there are markers in fourteen additional towns and ...