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A Mixed Bag

  The family of Maum Agnes (seated), a former Ball slave. When this photograph was taken in about 1920, they were among the last sharecroppers on the Ball plantation of Quenby…

A Mixed Blessing

  A young boy on Quenby plantation. Slave children were usually put to work when they were about six years old. You've obviously uncovered some ugly chapters in your…

Martin Van Buren Biography

Martin Van BurenBorn: 12/5/1782Birthplace: Kinderhook, N.Y. Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5, 1782, at Kinderhook, N.Y. After graduating from the village school, he became a law clerk,…

Joint Reckoning

Related Links Interview: Edward Ball1998 National Book AwardsInfoplease Celebrates Black History MonthThe Emancipation ProclamationPBS Online: Africans in AmericaShould the Government…

Walt Whitman: Unnamed Land

Unnamed LandNations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States, Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and…

Hannibal HAMLIN, Congress, ME (1809-1891)

Senate Years of Service: 1848-1857; 1857-1861; 1869-1881 Party: Democrat; Republican HAMLIN Hannibal , a Representative and a Senator from Maine and a Vice President of the United States; born at…

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human RightsArticlesArticle 1.All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one…