NEGROPhile

NHPR: “Carroll said archivists will be thinking about various questions as they continue their work: how people of color in the region connected with one another; how it felt to be one of a few Black people in town at the time; why many of these families didn’t seem to stick around long; and how they were affected by major national events, like the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 or the advent of railroads. […]”