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A remarkable set of resolutions that the student body of Bowdoin College in Maine passed in 1838 denounced the "unfounded and wicked prejudice" displayed against Andrew Harris at the University of Vermont "for possessing a complexion which God saw…

Andrew Harris was a man of constant activity and tremendous energies, all of which were devoted to what at the time was the truly radical cause of racial equality in America. His untimely death of fever in December 1841 at the age of 27 is the only…

Langley was an African- American born into a large farm family in Huntington, Vermont. Educated and articulate, he posted many newspaper editorials decrying the colonization schemes of the mid-1800's, the evils of slavery, and the unjust treatment of…