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The future of the institution of slavery was a dominant issue in the 1852 presidential election. Economic and political forces in the slave states, with sympathizers in the north, were

John P. Hale, U.S. senator from New Hampshire, was the first person in that body who had run as an anti-slavery candidate. From December 1847 until early March 1849, Hale

DOVER’S JOHN P. HALE served New Hampshire as a Representative in the 28th Congress.

WHILE SERVING in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1844, John P. Hale of Dover broke with the Democratic Party by supporting the elimination of the “gag rule.” This 1836

John P. Hale’s strong anti-abolitionist stance of the 1830s gave way, over time, to a softening of the heart that led him to become an ardent anti-slavery campaigner.

ON MARCH 15, 1862, Frederick Douglass spoke in the large lecture hall of The Temple on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth on the topic of “The Black Man’s Future in the

175 Years Ago

A four-week archeological field school operated by West Virginia State University on the grounds of the Malden home once occupied by 19th century Kanawha County Renaissance man John P. Hale

My husband and I stay close to home and enjoy our summer vacation by taking day trips and visiting quaint towns and historic spots. Touring the New Hampshire St

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia State University archaeological field school has begun surveying the grounds of the 1838 Malden home once owned by Jo