When Boston awoke: It took a grim incident to turn the city from criticizing slavery to doing something about it

By Stephen Puleo | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | The Boston Globe

“…Things were never the same in Boston — or America — after the day in 1851 when a city allowed a hollow square of armed men to march a solitary black man back to slavery’s clutches….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/11/when_boston_awoke?mode=PF

 

 

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