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2 unusual facts about Freedmen's town


Freedmen's town

After taking office, President Andrew Johnson vetoed the re-authorization and funding of the bureau in 1866 during Reconstruction.

A freedman's town, in the United States, refers to communities built by freedmen, former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.


Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo

Boy's Town was referenced during the 1990 Texas gubernatorial race when Republican candidate Clayton Williams, admitted that he had made visits for "servicing".

The origins of the Boy's Town concept along the U.S.-Mexico border can be traced in part to the relationship that developed between the United States Army and various ad hoc entrepreneurs in northern Mexico during the army's 1916–17 Punitive Expedition; specifically when General John J. Pershing's forces were pursuing General Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.

Castle Harbour, Bermuda

In the west, The Causeway crosses from the main island to St. David's Island, and beyond this a stretch of water known as Ferry Reach connects the harbour with St. George's Harbour to the north, where Bermuda's first permanent settlement, St. George's Town, was founded in 1612.

Charles Pickard Ware

An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a supervisor of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolina during the Civil War.

Chloe Merrick Reed

Chloe Merrick (1832–1897) opened a school for freedmen on Amelia Island, Florida and married governor Harrison M. Reed.

Coastal and offshore rowing

This has taken place mainly on False Bay from the naval base at Simon's Town, but there have also been regular outings to bodies of water elsewhere in the region, including the Berg and Breede Rivers, Langebaan and Hermanus lagoons, and the Atlantic ocean in the vicinity of Cape Point.

Contraband

By war's end, the Union had set up 100 contraband camps in the South, and the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (1863–1867) was developed to be a self-sustaining colony.

Emancipation Oak

In November 1861, the American Missionary Association asked Mary Smith Peake (1823 to 1862) to teach children of freedmen at the contraband camp related to Fort Monroe.

Escape to Last Man Peak

The following day, the children are surprised to meet a friendly Rastafarian named Isaiah at Brown's Town, Saint Ann, and he, along with his neighbors Mr and Mrs Jarrett, offer the children refuge for a day.

Frances Margaret Leighton

Frances Margaret Leighton (8 March 1909 King William's Town - 8 January 2006 Blairgowrie, Victoria) was a South African botanist and the daughter of James Leighton (1855-1930), a Scotsman and Kew horticulturist and plant collector.

Free Villages

Trysee (the name is believed to derive from 'try and see'), an early Free Village in the Brown's Town area.

Freedmen's Bureau

George Ruby, an African American, served as teacher and school administrator and as a traveling inspector for the Bureau, observing local conditions, aiding in the establishment of black schools, and evaluating the performance of Bureau field officers.

Freedmen's Hospital

When Abraham Flexner visited the District of Columbia that year, he was impressed by the new, 278-bed Freedmen's Hospital and thought only Howard University Medical School in the city had a promising future.

Georgia during Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau agents were unable to give blacks the help they needed.

Hanno Teuteberg

From December 2010 until November 2011 he was the Chief of Fleet Staff at Fleet Command in Simon's Town followed by the post of Director Joint Force Preparations and Training with Chief of Joint Operations.

Hugh Leslie

His parents died when Hugh was very young and he was raised in a facility, educated at King William's Town and Grahamstown College, at Grahamstown.

La Zona

Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo also called La Zona, a legal zone for prostitution, also called a zone of tolerance.

Matthew Gaines

After the 1863 emancipation was finally officially announced in Texas on June 19, 1865, Gaines settled in Washington County, where he established himself as a leader of the freedmen, both as a Baptist preacher and a politician.

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it.

Monographia Chalciditum

Part I In this Walker describes "species collected by C. Darwin Esq. These are from Australia :-Hobart's Town, Van Diemen's Land, King George Sound and Sydney, New South Wales; Part II Bahia, Brazil; Part III Chiloe; Part IV Charle's Island, Galapagos; Part V New Zealand; Part VI Jame's Island, Part VII St. Helena, high central land.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Publius Atilius Aebutianus

According to ancient sources, Perennis was removed by the influential freedman and chamberlain of Commodus, Marcus Aurelius Cleander, and in 188 Aebutianus suffered a similar fate.

Rationibus

Freedmen who held the office of a rationibus are Pallas, Phaon, and Etruscus Pater.

Richard Realf

In 1868 he established a school for freedmen in South Carolina, and a year later was made assessor of internal revenue for Edgefield district.

Robert M. Patton

Patton worked closely with the assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, General Wager Swayne.

Roderick R. Butler

For the 42nd Congress, he was a member of the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, and for the 43rd Congress, he was a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Runkle v. United States

Benjamin Piatt Runkle, a Civil War veteran who was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, was, from 1867 to 1870, serving as an active duty Army Major and disbursing officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands for the State of Kentucky.

Scalawag

White Southern Republicans included formerly closeted Southern abolitionists as well as former slaveowners who supported equal rights for freedmen.

South African municipal election, 2011

There were vote boycott campaigns by a number of civil society organisations including Soundz of the South, the Mandela Park Backyarders, the Mitchell's Plain Backyarders Association and various communities such as Blikkiesdorp in Western Cape, Morutsi in Limpopo, King William's Town and Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, Cato Ridge in KwaZulu-Natal, Ermelo in Mpumalanga and elsewhere around the country.

The '59 Sound

Absolutepunk.net raved about the album, saying that it's "Packed full of vivid imagery and storytelling that resembles "Born to Run"/"Darkness on the Edge of Town"-era Springsteen, "The '59 Sound" is an impeccable work of punk-rock art where each listen offers something new, never taking any hint of imagination or personal effect away from the listener; this is the album The Killers wanted to make with "Sam's Town" but were unsuccessful at."

Tiberius Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Narcissus, one of the freedmen who formed the core of the imperial court under the Roman emperor Claudius

Volubilis

It remained loyal to Rome despite a revolt in 40–44 AD led by one of Ptolemy's freedmen, Aedemon, and its inhabitants were rewarded with grants of citizenship and a ten-year exemption from taxes.

Western theater of the American Revolutionary War

Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia wanted to retaliate by attacking Pluggy's Town in the Ohio Country, but he canceled the expedition for fear that the militia would be unable to distinguish between neutral and hostile Indians, and thus make enemies of the neutral Delawares and Shawnees.

William D. Kelley

He spoke often on the justice and necessity of "impartial suffrage", or voting rights for African-Americans, introduced a bill (which passed into law) in the 39th United States Congress which gave the right to vote to African-Americans in the District of Columbia, and spoke in favor of impeaching President Johnson, who had vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Freedmen's Bureau Bill .

William S. McFeely

His dissertation, later the book Yankee Stepfather, explored the ill-fated Freedmen's Bureau which was created to help ex-slaves after the Civil War.

William Simpson Oldham, Sr.

In the 1994 Harry Turtledove alternative history novel Guns of the South, A "Congressman Oldham" from Texas is mentioned as sponsoring a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy.


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