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Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
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Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied. There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became...
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Most of the poems in this book are not beautiful. The reason is that their dominating themes are injustice and oppression, which by its very nature, cannot be beautiful. These poems served as a catharsis for me, and as an exposition of truth to America. The truth is America is still sick. This lingering illness is related to the same sickness that allowed slavery, The Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, lynchings, segregation, discrimination, and unjust systemic...
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