Harriet Low was awakened by a spirited band in the street on Easter morning in the Portuguese colony of Macao on April 11, 1830. As a young woman raised in …
Religion & Social Movements
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Easter Sunday traditions in New England have long included dyeing eggs, wearing new clothes, baking hot cross buns and attending sunrise services. They are based on pagan superstitions, which of …
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A powerful Massachusetts politician in 1845 learned the hard way not to mess with the mill girls – and especially not with Sarah Bagley. To the mill girls of antebellum …
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In 1845, Frederick Douglass published Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, and it received so much publicity his friends urged him to flee the country. He had put …
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On April 11, 1638, William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, wrote a letter to Massachusetts Bay Colony Gov. John Winthrop in Boston. Bradford had heard about Anne Hutchinson (‘Huchingson’), who challenged …
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It was one of the most extraordinary concerts in history. Marian Anderson sang before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939. She did it because the Daughters …
