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 …
Religion & Social Movements
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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 …
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[jpshare]On April 7, 1860, Alice Watts was a dreamy, headstrong 15-year-old who attended school while helping to run her family’s farm in Peacham, Vt. She was smart and bookish, and …
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A tip of the hat by a Revolutionary War hero convinced teen-aged slave Lewis Hayden he deserved respect. It was 1825, and the Marquis de Lafayette was passing through Kentucky …
