Williams & Manning were sentenced to life in prison. Manning died in prison of tuberculosis in 1927. Williams was killed four years later in an accident at the state penitentiary in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Accident? 😏

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The 1848 Capital Riots: An unsuccessful mass escape by enslaved Blacks that entangled a nation | Milwaukee Independent

was a result of the escape attempt. Pro slavery protesters turned their anger towards abolitionists for 3 days, but there were no reported casualties.

The sale of slaves in Washington DC ended in 1850 as a result.

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me how to apply visuals to my posts. Much of what I do on here I learned from her. 😊💙

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A Different Type of Property: White Women and the Human Property They Kept - Michigan Law Review A Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, and They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. After a brief period...

just as they were by White men. This abuse was often overlooked or ignored by society, and the resulting children from these unions were typically considered enslaved as well.
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Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) | Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project Prudence Crandall - Articles, resources, and primary documents related to social reformer Prudence Crandall, Connecticut's State Heroine.

86 years old. A few of her former students went on to carve out successful careers of their own and became nationally known.

The school stands today as The Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury, CT.

Remember her name!

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She continued working in the shelter she established and was an advocate for desegregation. “I have no regrets. I didn’t need my eyes any longer. I had seen all there was to see,” she said.

She passed away in 1961 at 82.

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Lynching of Allen Brooks - Wikipedia

No one was held accountable for Brooks' death; not even the law enforcement officers who did not use their weapons to protect him.

The site of his lynching remained unmarked for more than century until 2021.

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"The Next Best Thing To Hell": The Story Of The Worst Mass Execution In American History “If you strike at them they will all turn on you and devour you and your women and little children,” the Dakota chief warned. He was right.

bodies were dug up to be used as medical cadavers before the next morning. It was also discovered that two innocent men were executed. As far as I'm concerned, they were all innocent. The land was theirs to begin with.😪🪶

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Remembering Heartbreak Day: The Tragedy of New Year's Day for Slave Families in the United States - TalkAfricana Heartbreak Day, also known as New Year's Day, was a day of great fear and sadness for many enslaved families in the United States.

with their loved ones; but only to go through it repeatedly. This is another part of history that I was not taught in school, but I knew about family separations. New Year's will now seem different for me going forward.

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