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The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston in 1831, published weekly until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Garrison used the paper to demand the immediate abolition of slavery without compensation to slaveholders, a radical position...
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is an opéra comique in three acts composed by Adolphe Adam, which premiered in Paris in 1836. The work is historically significant for its demanding tenor aria, which requires the lead singer to sustain a notoriously difficult high vocal register. The narrative follows a pr...
The Best Friend of Charleston was a pioneering American steam locomotive built by the West Point Foundry in 1830 for the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company. It holds the distinction of being the first locomotive built in the United States to pull a regularly scheduled passenger train in reve...
Tom Thumb was an experimental steam locomotive designed and built by American inventor and industrialist Peter Cooper in 1830 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). It was constructed to demonstrate that steam locomotives could operate effectively on the B&O's track, which had tight curves. The...
Olympic Revels is an 1831 mythological burletta by J. R. Planché and Charles Dance, notable for launching Madame Vestris's management of London's Olympic Theatre.
Published by Sojourner Truth in 1851, this abolitionist pamphlet merges religious faith with social reform, arguing that true morality requires the immediate end of slavery.
