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Slave resistance has a long and honored history in our nation. Leaders like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey, who planned armed uprisings, are famous figures in black history. Resistance took other forms, too, from verbal …
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If you do African American genealogy, you’ve no doubt heard about the “brick wall” of 1870. That’s the year of the first post-Emancipation U.S. federal Census. Before 1870, we have to rely on records from the era of slavery, …
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Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors, by Kathy Lynne Marshall, officially hits the bookstores today. I wrote the foreword for this book, which is a rare work on black family history in Washington …
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Published Dec. 13, 2018, Herald-Mail Media.com BOONSBORO — Sixteen churches throughout South County will open their doors Sunday afternoon for a free tour. The event runs from 1 to 5 p.m., and is sponsored by Boonsboro …
I'll be answering questions and giving short tours at St. Mark's Episcopal Church - Lappans as part of the South Washington Historic Churches Tour. You can visit the original slave balcony, see historic church furnishings up …
Irvin Sullivan served his country in World War I, and then returned to his native Hagerstown. He was one of many African Americans from Washington County who fought in the Great War and are largely forgotten today. Next …
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