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#1 Anthony Burns was a slave who escaped bondage and ended up in Canada. He was a preacher, and he helped end slavery in America. He was also a Black man who could pass for white. The stories of slaves who escaped and got to Canada are well-known, but the stories of those who escaped and were taken to northern states by the Underground Railroad are less so.
#2 In 1854,...
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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.
If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between...
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