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4 days ago · Bledsoe defended the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, justified slavery as compatible with the Bible, and argued for the right of secession. In the excerpt below, he refutes a speech by Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who had denounced the Fugitive Slave Law.
4 days ago · Frank Woolworth used his fortune from namesake stores selling merchandise for spare change to build his luxurious yet haunted Winfield Hall.
3 days ago · The burial ground at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site is believed to contain twelve men. Shortly after the execution, John Brown’s body was put in a wooden casket with a noose still...
2 days ago · Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, to John Hubbell Woolworth and Fanny McBrier, and had a brother, Charles Sumner Woolworth. His parents, John and Fanny Woolworth, were devout Methodists and sympathetic to the Northern Cause during the Civil War - they raised their two sons, Frank Winfield and Charles Sumner, accordingly.
2 days ago · In March 1865, Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania proposed that all planter lands in the former Confederacy be confiscated and redistributed to ex-slaves and poor whites in forty-acre tracks.
5 days ago · A proposed bridge to span the Hudson River would have been taller than the Woolworth Building and twice as long as the George Washington Bridge.
2 days ago · Als erster Ladenbesitzer präsentiert er 1879 seine mit Preisen ausgezeichnete Ware offen auf dem Tresen. Zusammen mit seinem Bruder Charles Sumner Woolworth gründete er 1900 die „F.W. Woolworth & Co“, die schon bald 76 Warenhäuser in zehn Bundesstaaten betrieb.
