On Pensacola Speaks: author tells how Pensacola resisted slavery before the Civil War

Today, I will interview Matthew Clavin, a history professor at the University of Houston, on his new book, “Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the…

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Free Blacks Flee Pensacola

The Panama City News Herald published today an article by Marlene Womack on how free blacks fled Pensacola in the years before the Civil War…

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Slavery – No Longer Global Family Secret

The State Department agrees that slavery is a problem. Should we send this to “Newsy Neighbors”? U.S. Releases Report on Modern-Day Slavery; Rice Says Problem…

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