Watch Night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, is a sacred New Year’s Eve tradition in Black communities rooted in Christian worship and remembrance of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved and free African ...
Excerpted from "The Scorpion's Sting: Anti-slavery and the Coming of the Civil War" The men and women who struggled to abolish slavery were not counting on a war to get the job done. Of course they ...
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