Bury St Edmunds tour guide tells the story behind the Market Cross, one of the historic town's most iconic buildings
A tour guide is set to launch his first book telling the story of an iconic town centre building.
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Slavery, the Constitution and Frederick Douglass: What was The New York Times thinking?
Frederick Douglass The question at the center of the book is whether the Constitution should be viewed as a pro-slavery or anti-slavery document. And the reviewer, the historian Gordon S. Wood, never mentions Frederick Douglass. Good Lord. If there was one central takeaway from David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (2018), it’s that Douglass embraced the Constitution as a weapon with which to fight slavery, breaking with William Lloyd Garrison, w...
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