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National10 years ago

African-American Union Army Soldiers Died on Their Way Home from War; Then History Lost Their Names

Mary Delach Leonard, ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Public Radio) — The elm and oak trees have grown tall with age in...
Politics10 years ago

Funeral for a Former Slave Takes Center Stage at Appomattox

STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds’ master’s cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the...
Politics10 years ago

Funeral for a Former Slave Takes Center Stage at Appomattox

STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds’ master’s cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the...
National10 years ago

Black Towns, Established By Freed Slaves, are Dying out

Deneen L. Brown, THE WASHINGTON POST SUGARLAND, Md. (THE WASHINGTON POST)—The old people used to say that Sugarland, Maryland, one of the hundreds of...

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