For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance. It was a brief period when they were offered better food and rest by slave owners, ...
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Solomon Northup's 'Twelve Years a Slave' Came to an End as He Regained His Long-Awaited Freedom on This Day in 1853Solomon Northup was a free Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York—a married, educated carpenter and musician—when two ...
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