Frederick Douglass & the FQMM
No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...
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Mary-Kay Belant
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Austin Steward's Farmington Friends
Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...
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Mary-Kay Belant
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained
On April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...
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Florence Cardella
- Feb 5, 2021
- 6 min
William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds
William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...
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