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Irish Green and Black America: Race on the Edge of Civil War

Originally posted January 27, 2012 by Patrick Young in The Immigrants’ Civil War In 1841, leading figures in Ireland sent a petition signed by 60,000…

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Can We Call Harriet Beecher Stowe an Abolitionist?

I have visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford and read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I have even seen the stained glass likeness of…

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