1873 FUGITIVE SLAVE. The Life of James Williams, Fifty Year Janitor at Trinity College, Hartford. ZZAmericanaandHistory Washington's main priority was to

Washington's main priority was to settle a war against the Navajo people

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Among his important commissions were a set of over two thousand engravings for a late-nineteenth-century edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and engraved illustrations for an edition of a George Eliot novel

George Atwell was born in 1766 and was engaged in the Baptist ministry during the Second Great Awakening

is an enlargement of a 1906 photograph of a "red face" marching band by Herbert Wendell Gleason [1855-1937]

1873 FUGITIVE SLAVE. The Life of James Williams, Fifty Year Janitor at Trinity College, Hartford. ZZAmericanaandHistory Washington's main priority was toA rather scarce biography of the fugitive slave Janitor of Trinity College [Hartford, CT] James Williams, who was known during his near 50 years of service as "Professor Jim." Williams was born into slavery on August 3, 1788. His mother was a French Creole woman enslaved by Colonel John F. Robert in Yonkers, New York. James father, freed from slavery, visited from nearby stone quarries where he worked. According to the 1800 census, Robert held nine