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Sarah Grimke 1792-1873 & Angelina Grimke Weld 1805-1879
The Grimke Sisterswood cut of Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) date of image is unknown.Library of CongressTwo early and prominent activists for abolition and women’s rights, Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and...
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Abby Kelley Foster 1811-1887
During her lifetime, Abby Kelley Foster followed the motto, “Go where least wanted, for there you are most needed.” A major figure in the national anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, she spent...
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New York painter James Henry Cafferty (1819–1869)
James Henry Cafferty (American artist, 1819–1869) Preparing to FishJames Cafferty, one of the 7 children of an Albany tailor, was in New York by 1839, working as a sign painter. In 1841, he began 2...
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President Madison returns to Washington, a city of blackened and burnt ruins...
1814 White House on Fire. William Strickland, engraver. Library of Congress.I know not where we are in the first instance to hide our heads. James Madison, prepares to return to Washington, August 27,...
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Woman's Work - January, 1859 Diary of Sarah Young Bovard, 31-year-old mother...
This diary follows a few years in the life of Sarah Bovard who lived on a farm in the countryside in Scott County, Indiana. Her life was fairly typical of the lives of most ordinary housewives in the...
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Woman's Work - February, 1859 Diary of Sarah Young Bovard, 31-year-old mother...
About the writer: Sarah Waldsmith Young was born on February 21, 1828 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Abner Young, born 1799 in Maine, and Jane Waldsmith, born 1806 in Hamilton...
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Woman's Work - October, 1859 Diary of Sarah Young Bovard, 31-year-old mother...
About the writer: Sarah Waldsmith Young was born on February 21, 1828 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Abner Young, born 1799 in Maine, and Jane Waldsmith, born 1806 in Hamilton...
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Woman's Work - November, 1859 Diary of Sarah Young Bovard, 31-year-old mother...
About the writer: Sarah Waldsmith Young was born on February 21, 1828 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Abner Young, born 1799 in Maine, and Jane Waldsmith, born 1806 in Hamilton...
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Woman's Work - December, 1859 Diary of Sarah Young Bovard, 31-year-old mother...
About the writer: Sarah Waldsmith Young was born on February 21, 1828 in Hamilton County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Abner Young, born 1799 in Maine, and Jane Waldsmith, born 1806 in Hamilton...
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Boys knitting, crocheting, & painting shells for Chirstmas gifts in the 1880s
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940Interview from the the Living Lore section.Interview with Alan Wallace in 1938 about Christmas as a child in the...
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An Old Irishman tells about Christmas in America in the 1850s-60s
Edward o'Neill born 1858 in Brookfield, MassachusettsRemembers Christmas past in 1938American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940Interview by Louise G. Bassett for...
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Christmas in Union, South Carolina during the Civil War
Christmas During the Civil War in South CarolinaAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940.Mrs. Ida Baker, E. Main St., Union, S.C. Interviewer: Caldwell Sims,...
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Ex-Slave Angie Garrett's Christmas Memories
Angie Garrett was a slave on a boat owned by Capt Mooring running between Mobile, Alabama, and Aberdeen, Mississippi. On land, they lived in Dekalb:"Us didn't git no presents at Christmas. Sometimes us...
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Civil War Christmas Memories of Sarah Morgan Dawson 1862 in Louisiana
A Confederate Girl's Diary: Sarah Morgan DawsonBorn into a wealthy New Orleans family, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909, was the daughter of an influential judge who moved his family to Baton Rouge when Sarah...
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Civil War Christmas Memories of Anita Dwyers Withers in Virginia
DIARY OF ANITA DWYER WITHERS 1860-1865A devout Roman Catholic, Anita Dwyer Withers, wife of a United States and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Texas, and briefly in...
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Ex-Slave Alice Houston's Christmas Memories
Alice Houston was born October 22, 1859. She was a slave of Judge Jim Watkins on his small plantation in Hays County, near San Marcos, Texas and served as house girl to his wife, Mrs. Lillie Watkins...
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Mary Chestnut's A Diary From Dixie:Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, 1823-1886, was born in Stateburg, South Carolina, in the High Hills of Santee, to Mary Boykin and her husband, Stephen Decatur Miller....
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Ex-Slave Eda Rains' Christmas Memories
Eda Rains was born a slave in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1853. In 1860 Eda, her brothers and mother, were bought by a Mr. Carter and brought to Texas:"Now, I mus' tell you all 'bout Christmas. Our...
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Civil War Christmas Memories of Mary Jeffreys Bethell 1861-1862 in North...
Diary of Mary Jeffreys Bethell, January 1st 1861 - Dec. 1865:Mary Jeffreys Bethell, born in 1821, was the daughter of Phereba Hinton Jeffreys and farmer and Methodist preacher George Washington...
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Ex-Slave Molly Ammond's Christmas Memories
Ex Alabama Slave Molly Ammond:"Us was treated fine. Our folks was quality. We had plenty somp'n t'eat, but dem slaves hadda work powerful hard though. Atter dey come home fum de fields dey was so tired...
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