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An Amazing Advertisement for Runaway Slaves

Even as a boring researcher who spends days on end in dusty old archives, every now and again something shocks you. I came across this ad not long into my research regarding runaway slaves in Eastern … more →

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Sad fatalities at Tamahere

Philippa Stevenson wrote 2 months ago: Sad fatality at Tamahere, read the Waikato Times headline. ‘Camp’s Hotel destroyed by fi … more →

Tags: History, tamahere, Fire, Firefighter, Derek Lovell, Icepak coolstores, National Library of New Zealand, papers past, Waikato Times

'Conserve City Water': Gazette article after 1929 flood — 1 comment

John wrote 2 months ago: From March 19, 1929 Evening Gazette and Republican: Conserve City Water H. F. Blomquist, superintend … more →

Tags: Weather, cedar rapids iowa, flooding, Water Resources, Floods, Historic Flood, Water Supply, water use, water shortage

See front page of Gazette one day after Martin Luther King assassination

John wrote 4 months ago: To view a PDF of the page, click the following: The Gazette’s front page for April 5, 1968. Al … more →

Tags: Religion, History, Biography, Race, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Martin Luther King, MLK, Civil Rights, Newspaper Archives

An Amazing Advertisement for Runaway Slaves — 1 comment

totaltransformation wrote 1 year ago: Even as a boring researcher who spends days on end in dusty old archives, every now and again someth … more →

Tags: Africans, American South, antebellum slavery, Archives, Black Slavery, History, life of a slave, Newspapers, North Carolina Archives

Update: Runaway Slave Advertisements Chart.

totaltransformation wrote 1 year ago: The JPEG files below are JPEG versions of Excel charts based on runaway slave advertisements from 18 … more →

Tags: Africans, American South, antebellum slavery, Black Slavery, History, interstate slave trade, life of a slave, Newspapers, North Carolina Archives

Runaway Slaves in Eastern North Carolina... — 2 comments

totaltransformation wrote 1 year ago: The below link will take you to a downloadable Excel file of Runaway slaves in Eastern North Carolin … more →

Tags: Africans, American South, Charts, History, Newspapers, North Carolina Archives, Rebellion, Runaway slaves, Slave trade

Welcome to the History Dump... — 1 comment

totaltransformation wrote 1 year ago: During the course of researching my thesis (2004-2006) I collected thousands of pages of documents- … more →

Tags: Africans, American South, Archives, Articles, History, interstate slave trade, Newspapers, North Carolina Archives, Rebellion


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