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White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders' rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat

  • Written by Michael David Cohen, Research Professor of Government, American University
White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders' rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boatAn abolitionist lithograph of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background.Library of Congress

The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans.

4 paragraphs from an 1848 newspaper account of the capture of the Pearl.An account on April 19, 1848, of the Pearl’s capture appearing in The Daily Union newspaper of...

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