by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
Our anxiety to perpetuate and extend the blessings of freedom, and enlarge the circle of humanity, induces us to remind you of the bill emancipating the children born of negro and mulatto parents. We wish to see you give the complete sanction of law to this noble and...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
Slavery Was an Abhorrent Institution in Real Time… A letter from Chester County, relates someone who was there. Media, 2d Mo. 26TH, 1880 Dear Friend: I will endeavor to give a few of the facts in relation to the operations of the Underground Railroad in Chester...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” I had crossed the line. I was free; but...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
If they fought for freedom, they were beasts; if they did not fight, they were born slaves. If they cowered on the plantations, they loved slavery; if they ran away, they were lazy loafers. If they sang, they were silly; if they scowled, they were impudent. —W.E.B....
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
As these checkered scenes of my early life reflectively present themselves to my mind at my advanced state of life, I wonder how I withstood all the abuse and cruelty of these early years. Our lives are largely composed of sorrow and joy, but my cup, it seems to me,...