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Vermont's reputation as a bastion of antislavery and women's extensive involvement in antislavery societies elsewhere in the Northeast suggests that Jonathan Miller was not just boasting. But if so many women were involved, as Miller contended, why…

Minstrel shows in which white men appeared in blackface were popular in Vermont as well as other areas of the country. This is a four-page program for the Hometown Minstrels Show put on by the citizens of East Montpelier, Vermont, in 1957. The…

African American children from Harlem arriving at the Burlington Railroad station in Vermont, July 1946. According to a newspaper article said that children were placed in homes from Wilmington to Newport.

A young black girl looks up as a white woman reads a name tag on her coat.

A young African American girl is escorted to a car outside of the Burlington train station by her host family.

Two African American boys ride on a hay wagon at a Vermont farm.

Two black boys help a Vermont farmer with a calf in a barn.

Two African American boys share a relaxing moment with their hosts on a Vermont farm.

An African American woman gives instructions to a white man as a railroad conductor and a black boy listen as the group leaves Vermont.

Rev. Ritchie Low, organizer of the two-week visit by black children to Vermont, says good-bye to two Black, female organizers, probably Laura Thomas and Anna Newsome, who stayed in Vermont with the children.

A black boy and girl sleep on a train, probably as they are heading home to NYC.

While the historical record of the Meros' Civil War service remains indisputable, research led to the discovery of two different Mero families living miles apart from one another. Parallels exist with Cesar Lewis, a Mero neighbor in Sutton, New…