African Heritage
Free Black Communities
Free Black Communities: Bulwarks of Safety Before the Civil War The January 26, 2022 edition of the No./So. Dutchess News / Beacon Free Press contains a version of this article. By Bill Jeffway For persons of color, the 66 years between New York State’s 1799 Gradual Emancipation Act (a promise of the abolition of slavery […]
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1941 Manet Fowler Interviews Poughkeepsie
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1858 Speech Strikes at National Issues
By Bill Jeffway. A version of this article appears in the July 14, 2021 issue of the Northern/Southern Dutchess News / Beacon Free Press. There was never a more pivotal moment in our country’s history than the moment when the renowned escaped slave, abolitionist, author, publisher and speaker Frederick Douglass galvanized an audience of several […]
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