Join Dr. Charles Wash, executive director of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, to learn more about Frederick Douglass’s 1854 Commencement Address
The Randolph Freedpeople reach Ohio.
Freedom despite three wills, a deathbed confession, and a desperate attempt to retain white affluence.
Part one in the story of the Randolph Freedpeople of Roanoke, their journey to Ohio, and settlement in the Miami Valley.
In 1855, Rosetta Armstead became the key defendant in a case that won her freedom and created tensions between Ohio and Kentucky that foreshadowed the Civil War.
What are Manumission Registers? And more importantly, how do you find them?
