In 1850, a businessman from western Arkansas, John Drennen, and his wife, signed the register at the sumptuous Monongahela House, a five-story hotel on Water Street in Pittsburgh. Their 14-year-old African slave was directed below to the servant’s quarters. It was a long and tiresome trip, which lasted more than a month, traveling southeast through […]
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