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Harvard relinquishes 1850 portraits of enslaved Renty, Delia: Photos headed to SC museum
The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...
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A New Orleans attorney is buying the Poor Clare monastery, vowing to honor its 'beauty and nature'
The back of St. Clare's Monastery on Henry Clay Avenue in New Orleans on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune, NOLA.com) At a meeting Wednesday with ...
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Looking back at Secretary of State Daniel Webster’s infamous Syracuse speech
It was clear to most politicians and observers that the fulcrum of the election would be the controversy surrounding legislation of the so-called Compromise of 1850 ... Henry out of his jail ...