That key historical evidence in the Clotilda’s remains includes the lower hull where the enslaved Africans were held in captivity.
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A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In ‘heart-rending scenes,’ white slavers ‘would sell their own children,’ William Davis recalled.
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Maine’s seafaring history marred by long-ignored, disgraceful chapter
There’s new attention to Maine’s role in the slave trade of the 1800s, and on Friday a national expert will discuss how a Portland ship captain became one of the most notorious participants.
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How did we lose a president's daughter?
Many people know that Thomas Jefferson had a long-standing relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. But fewer know that they had four children, three boys and a girl, who survived to adulthood. Born into slavery, Sally’s daughter Harriet boarded a stagecoach to freedom at age 21, bound for Washington, D.C. Her father had given her […]
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To Ben Carson: Slaves were not immigrants
A hypothetical narrative for your consideration: A man climbs through the window of a sleeping girl. She stirs awake and starts to scream, but he punches her with a closed fist. Brandishing a gun, he vows to kill her parents, asleep in the next room, if she makes another sound. She nods in tearful comprehension […]
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Black History lesson: Africans were free, then enslaved
LEWISTON — When national diversity speaker Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. spoke to Lewiston High School students Wednesday about prejudice, he paused to give a history lesson. When talking about the Civil War and United States history, he encouraged his audience not to call blacks “slaves.” “They didn’t bring slaves to America,” he said. “They brought […]
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U.K. police: 3 women held captive for 30 years
LONDON (AP) — Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police said Thursday. London’s Metropolitan Police announced the rescues after two people — a man and a woman, both 67 — were arrested […]
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Leonard Pitts: Carson statement a cheap, rhetorical stunt
In 1865, American slavery ended with the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Since that time, these things have happened: In 1871, fire destroyed the city of Chicago. In 1896, the Supreme Court legalized segregation. In 1906, an earthquake leveled the city of San Francisco. In 1929, the stock […]
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Maine gets mixed reviews in annual human trafficking report
PORTLAND — Maine has made progress in adopting laws to stem human trafficking, but remains in the bottom half of all states in terms of the strength and breadth of those laws, according to rankings released Wednesday by the national Polaris Project. Wednesday’s state-by-state ratings represented the Washington, D.C.-based anti-slavery organization’s fourth such annual report. […]