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BumRushDaShow

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21. Yup

Reply to KingCharlemagne (Reply #20)

Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:41 PM

Mar 2017

I had relatives up in the Rochester/Buffalo area (including a great-grandfather) during that time (1850s). That was when Frederick Douglass was up there agitating against that law!

Here in Philadelphia, since the state of PA abolished slavery before the Constitution was ratified and George Washington became President, since the first U.S. capital was here, Washington had to truck his slaves back and forth across the Mason-Dixon line down to Virigina every 6 months so they wouldn't be set free.

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History repeating BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #14

That is an amazing flyer. i think its date is 1851 which marks it KingCharlemagne Mar 2017 #20

Yup BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #21

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