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Living American history: The legacy of Stagville Plantation
Ricky Hart and Beverly Evans survey the vast expanse of Historic Stagville Plantation, where their ancestors’ whispers echo ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
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Buried in Pittsfield Cemetery, Bushrod Birch was a Civil War veteran who was hailed as 'a true man in all the relations of his life'
Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...