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Savannah Is Hosting Fans of Frederick Douglass With Art and History Exhibits

The New York Times has an article on why Savannah has become a pilgrimage site for those interested in Frederick Douglass, a man who never…

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Historian Sean Wilentz: The End of Slavery Was Anything But Inevitable

Historian Sean Wilentz has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books on how surprising the abolition of slavery was to most Americans…

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Three Million Have Seen “Harriet”-Here Are Biographies to Learn the Fuller Story

The film “Harriet,” about the life of Harriet Tubman, has been out for three weeks and over three million people have seen it in the…

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Amy Murrell Taylor Wins Frederick Douglass Prize for “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps”

Amy Murrell Taylor has won the Frederick Douglass Prize from Yale University for her new book “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee…

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CBS Sunday Morning Visits the Slavery and Reconstruction Sites of Harriet Tubman

CBS Sunday Morning has a nice travel piece visiting the sites of Harriet Tubman’s life in slavery in  Maryland and freedom in Auburn, N.Y. CBS…

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Pat Young Reviews the New Film “Harriet” About the Life of Harriet Tubman

I went to see the new Harriet Tubman movie “Harriet” today and I suggest you see it too. I don’t say that you should see…

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Maryland Hopes Americans Will Visit Harriet Tubman Sites in State

Maryland created a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway several years ago to guide tourists through the route Tubman took to get away from that state…

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Reviews of “Harriet” Movie from L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, & NPR

I have posted some reviews of the new Civil War/Reconstruction film “Harriet,” about the life of Harriet Tubman. Here are excerpts for several more from…

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New Yorker Says that New Harriet Tubman Film Is a “Stunning Achievement”

The New Yorker gave the new Civil War/Reconstruction Era film “Harriet” an enthusiastic review. In fact, it calls the Harriet Tubman biopic a “stunning achievement.”…

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The New York Times Reviews New Harriet Tubman BioPic “Harriet”

Reviews are beginning to roll in for the new Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet.” I will post excerpts and links to this Civil War and Reconstruction…

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