Page | Item | Description |
61 | Emancipation City | No reference found, but from the context of the story it seems that “Emancipation City” is a reference to Washington D.C. because that is the place that the Emancipation proclamation was signed. Also, before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, if a slave would be able to get to D.C. and not be captured, they would have an easier and shorter way toward their freedom up north. |
62 | How do you lease a human? | Leasing convicts was a quite popular movement in the Deep South. Leasing involved local police stations would send in to work on fields and plantations for very little pay.https://www.hamptoninstitution.org/convictleasesystem.html#.WfC2rjO-Ki4 |
62 | Humanitarian Impulses | A term to describe a impulse to help the common people. |
64 | Nebraskaites | A term to describe people from Nebraska. |