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Posts Tagged ‘Frederick Douglass’

Shields Green: He Went with the Old Man

By Gene Meyer | August 22, 2023 | 0

“I think I’ll go with the old man.” With these words, on Aug. 21, 1859, Shields Green sealed his fate. The “old man” was John Brown, and Green was a…

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On This Day in History: Two of John Brown’s Black Raiders Executed.

By Gene Meyer | December 16, 2022 | 4

John Anthony Copeland and Shields Green were hanged on Dec. 16, 1859 in Charlestown, Virginia (now West Virginia) for their role in the raid on Harpers Ferry. They were two…

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Tough Times, the Fourth of July, and a story “too good to check”

By Gene Meyer | July 14, 2022 | 3

These are tough times, no doubt about it.  Extreme weather related to climate change.  Worst inflation since 1981.  Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine.  The unraveling revelations surrounding the Jan. 6…

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