Also a researcher of the life of Emiliano Mundrucu, American historian Caitlin Fitz, a professor at Northwestern University, says that it was not just the Mundrucu lawsuit which was pioneering, so were the couple’s actions on the boat. The well-known episode in which ex-slave Frederick Douglass...
In 1832, the Mundrucu family refused to be barred from an area exclusively for Caucasians on the steamboat Telegraph It was a cold, rainy day in November 1832 when Brazilian immigrant Emiliano Mundrucu boarded a steamboat – the Telegraph – with his wife Harriet and their one-year-old daughter...
Original article title J. Edgar Hoover had black ancestors Seán Mac Mathúna “Not all slave masters abused their slaves – Some actually treated them like family and bore children by them, like the Mississippi plantation owner, William Hoover. He had eight children by my Great Grandmother...
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