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very much impressed with the personal appearance of Miss Miles, and was deeply interested in our first interview, because I found that her principles and my own were nearly one and the same. I soon found by a few visits, as well as by letters, that she possessed moral principle, and frankness of disposition, which is often sought for but seldom found.
383:, Cary returned to Washington, D.C., where he was a marshall at the Police Court and was a board of schools trustee. In 1875, Bibb had a building renovated for a store in Washington, D.C., In 1880, Isaac N. Cary and his wife Mary E. Cary (whose parents were from Rhode Island) lived in Washington, D.C., with their adopted daughter Florilla Tucker.
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was passed in 1850, which allowed slaveholders to capture Black former enslaved people and enslave legally free people. With the publication of his narrative and the high-profile position as an anti-slavery lecturer, Henry Bibb was an easy target to be captured. Like many other
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I had the good fortune to be introduced to the favor of a Miss Mary E. Miles, of Boston; a lady whom I had frequently heard very highly spoken of, for her activity and devotion to the anti-slavery cause, as well as her talents and learning, and benevolence in the cause of reforms, generally. I was
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newspaper was mysteriously burned to the ground. Mary and Henry tried to revive it, but Henry died suddenly in the summer of 1854 at the age of 39. In the late 1850s, Mary successfully opened up a school, then later opened a second school. She was a founding member of the Anti
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345:. This newspaper was written and published in large part by Bibb while her husband Henry was on speaking tours. She wrote articles and shared interviews with newly-arrived fugitives in Canada. She was noted for giving the newspaper a polished editorial style.
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278:. Beyond reading and writing, Gilmore's curriculum included Latin, Greek, art, and music. It prepared students, regardless of race, for college educations. She became involved in anti-slavery activities and, in 1847, met
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Henry Bibb, 1815-1854. Narrative of the Life and
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