Justice

John R. Lynch, Mary Meachum, Harriet Ann Jacobs, George Henry Thomas and Moncure Conway Are Southerners We Should Honor Instead of Confederates

December 27th 2017


John R. Lynch was born a slave and became a U.S. Congressman at age 26; Mary Meachum was a former slave and was arrested for helping slaves escape the South; Harriet Ann Jacobs escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist; George Henry Thomas spurned his slaveholding family to fight for the Union; Moncure Conway freed his family’s slaves and became an abolitionist.