In the 1850s, Midwestern states used harsh laws to deny free African-Americans wealth and property. By Anna-Lisa Cox Ms. Cox is a fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American ...
Historians often compare today's political polarization to the decade preceding the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intensified conflicts between federal authorities and Northern ...
Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on ...
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