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  1. The Importance of Meharry Medical School in Nashville
    date January 1, 1910 to January 1, 1923map Davidson, Tennesseetags Flexner, African-Americans, Hospital

    Meharry Medical College was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1876 as a place for African Americans to study medicine (Meharry). Meharry is particularly important institution because it was the first medical school in the South for African Americans. The school is still operating successfully today even though it has faced many hardships. Without this school African Americans would have had very little...

  2. I Ran to the Woods: The Life of William Henry Singleton
    date 1835 to 1860map CRAVEN, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Civil War, Slavery

    Born August 10, 1835 in Newbern, North Carolina, William Henry Singleton lived anything but an ordinary life. He was born unto a slave woman by the name of Lettis Singleton and a white man, his master John Singleton’s brother. The Singleton’s owned the largest Plantation in Craven County North Carolina and were a family of high social standing in the community. Having William around created a great...

  3. Push Enough to Run
    date 1835 to 1853map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Slavery

    Men and women who owned slaves had to constantly emphasize their position of authority and dominance over the people they owned. Some did so through beatings, starvation, and atrocious treatment. Others did through simple words, such as order a slave to perform a task that the owner knew the slave particularly despised. Regardless of how, each slave's day was full of a constant reminder that they were...

  4. The Power of the Bible
    date 1849map WORCESTER, Massachusettstags Slave Trade, Freed Slaves, Church, African-Americans

      Walking all alone through the dirt roads of Vermont on a bitterly cold winter day, Aaron found himself astonished. Aaron's astonishment had nothing to do with the journey itself; it was far removed from the runaway slave advertisements he had grown accustomed to seeing on the sidewalks of Ohio claiming his name, from the days in which he had to hide whenever there were newcomers in town, from the...

  5. Escape from Servitude in Connecticut: A Slave's Exodus out of Canaan Township
    date 1798 to 1815map Litchfield, Connecticuttags African-Americans, Slavery

    Under the cover of darkness on a tense night in 1798, James Mars, an eight-year-old slave living in northwest Connecticut, was stirred from sleep by his parents and quietly whisked away from his master's farm. To add insult to injury, his father had stolen their master's horses and had them attached to the cart that would carry the family to safety. When the master, Rev. Thompson of Canaan Township,...

  6. Something from Nothing: How Kate Drumgoold Directed Her Own Future
    date 1870map CHESTERFIELD, Virginiatags Education, Slavery, Women, African-Americans

    Kate Drumgoold walked through the door of the school room, the fee for her education in one hand and a Bible in the other. The funds her church had raised to put her through school had been stolen from her, but her passion had not been taken along with it. Saving up her earnings to pay for her schooling had been difficult, but her dream of one day being able to teach fellow former slaves to read and...

  7. "Whiteness", Power and Control
    date 1849map ST LOUIS, Missouritags African-Americans, Slavery, Crime/Violence

    William Wells Brown was owned by Dr. Young, but was hired out to work for different masters throughout his slavery. One of those masters was Mr. Lovejoy, who was a printer. While returning from an errand to the "Missouri Republican" to pick up type, William was attacked by several slave-holders sons. He could not make his escape, being heavily outnumbered and carrying the substantial type, so William...

  8. Man or Machine? Commodification in the Antebellum South
    date April, 1820 to 1820map KENT, Delawaretags Slavery, Slave trade, African-Americans

    As the price of Bayley's son steadily rose and the auctioneer continued to call for the highest bidder, Solomon Bayley leaned agains the wall of the church to support himself in the heat of the summer sun. They boy who had been taken from him years earlier was up for sale, and it looked as though Bayley would lose his once in a lifetime opportunity to buy his son back. This is the story of Solomon...

  9. Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute Flyer
    date September 15, 1892map CHESTERFIELD, Virginiatags Education, African-Americans

    In 1892 the administrative staff at Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (what is today Virginia State University) created a flyer for the prospective students giving them general information about the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute's entrance requirements, educational programs, and cost. It was very important during the 1890s to create this type of flyer, since this was the main source...

  10. Jefferson Davis Responds to the Gibson County Massacre
    date September 2, 1874map SHELBY, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On September 2, 1874 former President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, delivered a speech in Memphis, Tennessee denouncing a massacre of sixteen black men a week prior in Trenton, TN. The massacre was committed on August 26, and as the New York Times reported, “About 400 armed, disguised, mounted men,” set upon the jail with the design of kidnapping the sixteen black occupants. Historian Allan...

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