This is the grave of Alexander Crummell. Born in 1819 in New York City, Crummell grew up in the free Black world there. Remember though that New York was the center of northern slavery and there were still slaves in the city and in the...
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This is the grave of Jehudi Ashmun. Born in 1794 in Champlain, New York, Ashmun went to Middlebury College before transferring to the University of Vermont, where he graduated in.
If you haven't read the Pro Publica report on Firestone funded Charles Taylor's extraordinarily violent takeover of Liberia in 1992, do so. Firestone served as a source of food, fuel,.