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Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by himself. Two years later he traveled to England to lecture on the abolition circuit, as Frederick Douglass had done. While he was there, the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), making it impossible for Brown to return to the United States without either facing reenslavement or purchasing his freedom from the man who claimed to own him. Brown refused to do either. He was trapped in England, but he prospered there, publishing new versions of his narrative and writing and publishing Clotel; or the President’s Daugh...

lean and hard, bad face, and ugly, not only in form and feature, but expression.” Caphart arrived armed with papers issued by a Virginia court testifying to Minkins’s various owners. The papers estimated Minkins’s age to be twenty-five or twenty-six, his height five-feet-seven, his complexion “bacon color,” and his build “stout” and “square.” Caphart sought and received an arrest warrant from George T. Curtis, a designated federal commissioner who would later serve as co-counsel to Dred Scott in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. On February 14, the assistant deput...

 Montana legislators are pushing to protect your Second Amendment rights from Biden’s gun control agenda!  The Second Amendment Sanctuary bill (HB 258) — sponsored by Rep. Jedediah Hinkle — is challenging President Biden’s intention to impose a gun control agenda that will restrict your 2A rights.   If this bill would become law, state and local government officials will be under order to NOT enforce ANY federal bans or regulation on firearms, magazines, ammunition, ammunition components, or firearm accessories. This will make it … Read more

Section of the mural at Vermont Law School In July 2020, Vermont Law School announced that it would remove from its campus a large mural that had incited controversy among students and faculty for its portrayal of slavery, African Americans and the Underground Railroad. Eight months later, the mural remains. Its removal has proved complicated — and could be a test case for an obscure federal statute regarding visual artwork. Thomas McHenry, then-president and dean of the South Royalton law school, initially announced that the mural would be p...

Thanks to the passion of a retired historian, an unknown local Black Civil War hero has received the recognition he was long overdue.