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How a blind slave boy became the first Black musician to perform at the White House in 1860
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author Blind Tom’s White House Performance Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in ...
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Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market
The following report is part of a Verite News series: "Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans" ...
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How the last slave ship to reach America in 1860 was found rotting in Alabama’s Mobile River
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown photographer, from Historic sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The ...