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Compromise of 1850. Henry Clay, U.S. senator from Kentucky, was determined to find a solution.
In 1820 he had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his Missouri Compromise. Now, thirty years later, the matter surfaced again within the walls of the Capitol. But this time the stakes were higher -- nothing less than keeping the Union together. NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century. Liberia - The African-American Mosaic Exhibition.
Liberia Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809-1876), a wealthy Monrovia merchant who had emigrated in 1829 from Petersburg, Virginia, became the first black ACS governor of Liberia in 1841.
In 1848, he was elected the first president of an independent Liberia. Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives. Been Here So Long. An Introduction to the American Slave Narratives Journalists and other writers employed by the Federal Writers Project, part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA), gathered the American Slave Narratives during 1936-1938.
Over 2,000 interviews with ex-slaves were collected during these years of the Great Depression and eventually compiled by George P. Gallery: On the Trail . . . Sam Houston a Texas Hero. The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman.: A narrative of real life.