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Mutiny! The Case of the Fighting Fourth in the Civil War
4 years ago

Mutiny! The Case of the Fighting Fourth in the Civil War

In the beginning of the 1993 movie Gettysburg, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the Twentieth Maine receives orders assigning 120 men of the Second Maine Regiment who had recently been …
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The “Mustard Seed”:  Providence’s Alfred Niger, Antebellum Black Voting Rights Activist
4 years ago

The “Mustard Seed”: Providence’s Alfred Niger, Antebellum Black Voting Rights Activist

Alfred Niger, a Black voting rights activist from Providence, may have provided the final straw that broke the back of the Dorr Rebellion.  His attempt to vote in an 1841 …
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