🔎Preview pages from the new book! Featuring Jane Tyler’s PROLOGUE…
Tag Archives: slavery
Ona Judge ⛵(Portsmouth, 1796)
A young woman dodges the president’s slave-catchers…
Thomas Sims ⛓️ (Boston, 1851)
US Law in chains…
Anthony Burns ⛓️ (Boston, 1854)
A President sends federal troops into a Northern city to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law…
1779 Petition to End Slavery in NH
WORK IN PROGRESS // Drawn from an 18th century antislavery text…
Caesar Porter: Revolutionary War Veteran
“In his youth, he was brought to Litchfield (NH) & held as a slave…”
JUDE HALL #2: 4 Sons of Jude Hall
Some of the many risks & challenges facing “free” black families in 19th century New England…
JUDE HALL #1: Revolutionary War Veteran
“New Hampshire’s best-known black soldier of the American Revolution.” ~ G. Knoblock
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address 📖 4 March, 1865
“All knew that [slavery] was somehow the cause of the war…”
VOL. 4 PREVIEW 🔥 “Return to Port Royal”: Alec Turner’s Story
Memories of enslavement & revenge in Northern Virginia…
Anthony Clark: Revolutionary War Veteran
Fiddler “Tony” Clarke was quite a local celebrity, & lived to the ripe old age of 100+!
Silas Burdoo: Revolutionary War Veteran
The Burdoos — a New England family of “African descent” — have a multi-century history of military service:
