May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Erica | 16 | Texas | History Peep
My grandmother grew up in this tiny village in Barbados, and she was the only kid in the village to have a cricket bat. She used to play with all the boys, but then they started stealing the bat every time she bought it out of the house and saying that she couldn’t play because girls shouldn’t play sport. So one day she invited them to come play cricket, then set fire to the bat and made them watch it burn, so none of them could play cricket anymore. She was 11.
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NARA Gov Site: Teaching with Documents-The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.”
Frederick Douglass
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3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (by Brendan C.H.)
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St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1865 (by Brendan C.H.)
Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot (by Brendan C.H.)
Overgrown and beautifully broken house near Slater, MO, USA. OC
Source: MarquisDesMoines (flickr)
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