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Contrabands
"Contrabands" was the label given to formerly enslaved people who escaped to Union lines during the Civil War.
David Hunter
A White, controversial, New York-born Union Army General known for issuing an unauthorized emancipation declaration for all enslaved people in the…
Denis Kearney
An Irish immigrant and California leader of the Workingmen's Labor Party known for anti-Chinese sentiments and racial terror.
Elizabeth Botume
A Northern-born, White teacher who was sent to do missionary work with newly freed children in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Elizabeth Ware Pearson
A Massachusetts-born, White abolitionist writer and educator who served as a teacher to newly freed people during the Port Royal Experiment in…
Ellen Murray
A White, Canadian missionary teacher and co-founder of the Penn School (one of the first for formerly enslaved people) on St. Helena Island in the…
Esther Hill Hawks
A White missionary teacher, abolitionist, physician, and women's rights advocate from New Hampshire. Known for her work as a doctor and teacher of…
Fort Laramie Treaty
The 1869 treaty aimed to establish peace between the United States and the Midwestern tribes, including the Sioux and Arapaho Nations. Also known as…
Forty Acres and a Mule
An unrealized promise included in Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 (January 16, 1865) that allotted land and…
Francis Lewis Cardozo
A free born Charleston, South Carolina educator, minister and politician. Elected Secretary of State of South Carolina during…
Frazier Baker
A South Carolina teacher who became the first Black postmaster in the predominantly White community of Lake City, South Carolina. Known for being a…
Frederick Douglass
A Maryland born enslaved man who escaped slavery and became a public orator and writer known for his prominent role in the anti-slavery…
Freedmen's Bureau
A federal agency that was created to provide aid to displaced Southerners, including newly freed people, during and after the Civil War.
Geary Act of 1892
Details about the 1892 addition to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that required Chinese immigrants to carry a residential permit at all times or…
Gideonites
A term used to refer to Northern abolitionist teachers and missionaries who were sent to teach formerly enslaved people during the Port Royal…
Harriet Ware
A White missionary teacher from Massachusetts who taught formerly enslaved people during the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea…