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Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet ...
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This day in history: Democrats adopt the donkey as their mascot

On January 15, 1870, political illustrator Thomas Nast published a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly that would come to be known as ...