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On May 21, 1796, attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland. 

U.S. congressman, senator and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont.

On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, an important step in the long road toward f…

LONDON â€� The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery…

On March 31, 1917, U.S. took formal possession of the Danish West Indies. Renamed U.S. Virgin Islands, this chain consists of St. Thomas, St. …

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Hallie Quinn Brown was an African American born free on March 10, 1845, according to some sources.

On March 9, 1841, U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining thirty-five survivors of the Amistad mutiny. Although seven of t…

On March 3, 1859, journalist Q.K. Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) attended an auction of 436 men, women and children formerly held by P…

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