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writinghistorylit · 9 months
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mysharona1987 · 2 months
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afrotumble · 1 year
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This is Aunt Polly Jackson from the 19th century.⁣
She was once enslaved, but managed to escape well into her old age. ⁣Like many others, Aunt Polly escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad and settled in Ripley, Ohio.⁣
She dedicated the rest of her life to helping others win their freedom by opening up her home and feeding those who either came to Ohio to settle or those who just needed some rest before continuing further up north.⁣
During this time, anti-abolitionists had set up what was called the reverse underground railroad, which was a practice of kidnapping not only the enslaved that had managed to escape, but also those who were already free. The reverse underground railroad operated for 85 years from 1780 to 1865.⁣
Aunt Polly would deliberately dress herself to appear as a weaker older lady in order to fool the anti-abolitionists who typically were not interested in capturing older people. Her weapon of choice was a butcher knife, which she hid under her clothes, and a kettle of boiling water. Aunt Polly was able to successfully fight off several slave catchers while working along the Underground Railroad.⁣
Source: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/id/14014/
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kemetic-dreams · 6 months
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Joseph "Big Joe" Winters (1816 – 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who patented a wagon-mounted fire escape folding ladder mounted directly on fire wagons in 1878. He was born in Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee Indian mother. He later relocated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1830. During the time Winters lived in Chambersburg, he was active in the Underground Railroad.
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my mom: "you want to be black dont you!!1!1!1!"
me, a 4th grader who at the time had undiagnosed autism, and whos current special interest was the underground railroad and harriet tubman and sojourner truth and female black abolitionists/ the civil war: ???????? excuse me wat??
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This is so damn funny 😂😭
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mimi-0007 · 8 months
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The Combahee Ferry Raid..,..On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman, under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid during the Civil War. Tubman, often referred to as “the Moses of her people,” was a former slave who fled to freedom in 1849. Tubman worked for years to bring enslaved women, men, and children from the south to the north through the Underground Railroad.
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shewhoworshipscarlin · 2 months
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Harriet Tubman, 1910s.
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A Toronto man chained himself to a sign as part of a hunger strike at a historic cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake this week in an attempt to get the town to pay to unearth and restore the headstones of Black settlers.
"It was an act of desperation, I've been trying for the last nearly two years to convince the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to do the right thing, to provide some respect to the folks who are buried there," James Russell, 76, told CTV News Toronto.
Russell chained himself to the Negro Burial Ground sign at the Niagara Baptist Church Memorial Ground at 12 p.m. on Monday, but ended his protest Tuesday evening to return home for a family matter.
Russell says he took a personal interest in the cemetery when, after multiple trips to the area, he noticed a sign commemorating not a burial ground, but an empty field. [...]
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada
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detroitlib · 7 months
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View of bronze tablet marking the site of Detroit's Underground Railroad station. Installed on Detroit Bank building at the northeast corner of Griswold and State Streets. Inscription reads: "This tablet marks the site of Detroit's 'Underground Railway Station.' A large brick building known as 'The Finney House Barn," was located here, and used as a depot for helping slaves gain freedom into Canada from 1833 until the Civil War. Detroit was one of the important 'stations,' on the route to Canada and the Anti-Slavery Society organized in 1837, aided in the liberation of thousands of slaves. Presented to the city of Detroit in the month of September, 1926."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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jasoncanty01 · 1 year
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Aunt Polly Jackson, was an escaped enslaved woman who worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad helping others escape. She was known for fighting off slave catchers with a butcher knife and a kettle of boiling water.
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writinghistorylit · 9 months
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ausetkmt · 2 months
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
just because some of y’all thought Michigan NEVER HAD SLAVERY - WATCH THIS AND LEARN
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buecherbummlerin · 10 months
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Currently reading Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. This is the story of one woman’s will to escape the horrors of slavery. This book is devastating and terrific at the same time.
“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”
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kemetic-dreams · 3 months
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In Alabama slave narratives, it was documented former slaves used graveyard dirt to escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad. Freedom seekers rubbed graveyard dirt on the bottom of their feet or put graveyard dirt in their tracks to prevent slave catcher's dogs from tracking their scent. Former slave Ruby Tartt from Alabama, said there was a conjurer who could "Hoodoo the dogs." An enslaved conjurer could conjure confusion in the slave catcher's dogs which prevented whites from catching runaway slaves. In other narratives, slaves made a jack ball to know if a slave would be whipped or not. Slaves chewed and spit the juices of roots near their enslavers secretly to calm the emotions of the slaveholders which prevented whippings. Slaves relied on conjurers to prevent whippings and being sold further South
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On This Day in New York City History February 20, 1895: Former slave, abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass (February 1818 - February 20, 1895) passes away at the age of 77 or 78.
Douglass escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad arriving in NYC in 1838. Douglass would figure heavily in the history of NYC's abolition movement leading up to and during the Civil War. Douglass gave a series of speeches at Cooper Union including The Proclamation and the Negro Army which was given on February 3, 1863.
Post Civil War, Douglass continued to work for the freedom of not only blacks but of women in the areas of voting rights and would lend his support to Ida B. Wells' anti-lynching campaign.
Douglass would pass away at either the age of 77 or 78 in Washington D.C.
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