Tag Archives: 1840s
Remembered – Yvonne Battle-Felton
The book begins in Philadelphia during a streetcar strike in 1910 with a newspaper clipping about a streetcar being driven by a black man into a department store. Then we go with his mother, Spring, to the hospital where she … Continue reading
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Tagged 1840s, slavery
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River Runs Deep – Jennifer Bradbury
Young Elias suffers from tuberculosis and is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky for experimental treatments by Dr. Croghan who hopes the cool cave air will aid in recovery. In the 1840s there were few proven treatments for tuberculosis (consumption). … Continue reading
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Tagged 1840s, Mammoth Cave, Underground Railroad
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