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  • U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave

    U.S.
    1850

    Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave.




  • Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    Truth spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention

    Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850

    Sojourner Truth purchased a home in Florence for $300 and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and cartes-de-visite captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off the mortgage held by her friend from the community, Samuel L. Hill.




  • U.S.
    Sep, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    Failure of the Compromise of 1850

    U.S.
    Sep, 1850

    The debate over the status of slavery in the territories failed to alleviate tensions between the slave-holding South and the free North, with the failure of the Compromise of 1850, a legislative package designed to address the issue.




  • Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    William Wallace Lincoln

    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850

    Lincoln's third son, "Willie" Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died of a fever at the White House on February 20, 1862.




  • U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave

    U.S.
    1850

    Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave.




  • Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    Truth spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention

    Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850

    Sojourner Truth purchased a home in Florence for $300 and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and cartes-de-visite captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off the mortgage held by her friend from the community, Samuel L. Hill.




  • U.S.
    Sep, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    Failure of the Compromise of 1850

    U.S.
    Sep, 1850

    The debate over the status of slavery in the territories failed to alleviate tensions between the slave-holding South and the free North, with the failure of the Compromise of 1850, a legislative package designed to address the issue.


  • Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    William Wallace Lincoln

    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850

    Lincoln's third son, "Willie" Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died of a fever at the White House on February 20, 1862.


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