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Tag Archives: Michigan history
Tomatoes & Eggs II: Erasing slavery on Big Isle
By Joel Thurtell During the long-ago historical period when I was a grad student in history, my faculty adviser warned me that contemporary history can be a time of troubles for historians. Too many living parties with stakes in yet-to-be-played … Continue reading
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Tagged black history, Grosse Ile, Michigan history, slavery, William Macomb
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Tomatoes & Eggs, Part I: Slaves on Grosse Ile
By Joel Thurtell Just as I predicted in a January 2007 Detroit Free Press story, Grosse Ile’s historians changed history. But not the way I expected. Early in 2007 (I retired from my Free Press reporting job the following November), … Continue reading
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Tagged black history, Grosse Ile, Michigan history, slavery, Slaves in Detroit, William Macomb
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The governor and history — John Swainson’s house in Plymouth
Here is the speech I gave Wednesday, May 21, 2008 to Friends of the Plymouth Library: Pontiac has its Governor Moses Wisner house. Today, it’s the town’s museum. Farmington has a governor’s house, too — it’s the old Fred Warner … Continue reading
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Tagged John Swainson, Michigan history
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