Protest erupts after US consumer watchdog boss tells staff to stop work
Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought, a longtime budget hawk, took control of the agency on Friday. He is the architect of the ...
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Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
His father recognized one catcher and fled, leaping 20 feet from a bedroom window, according to an account from Garnet's friend, abolitionist Alexander Crummell. His mother escaped to a nearby ...
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In Saratoga lecture, abolitionist Frederick Douglass criticized Quaker minister who said slaves better off than free Blacks
African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and ...