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Richard J. Ellis

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Early Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists

JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, poses with a monument that was erected in Harriet E. Wilson's honor. Boggis says when she read Wilson's book, she felt as if it was written the book just for her. Jack Rodolico /New Hampshire Public Radio hide caption

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Early Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists

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February 15, 2020 • In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson published a book about life as an indentured servant in New Hampshire. It remains an obscure classic because it challenges white ideals about racism in the North.

Early Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists

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Richard J. Ellis and the Pledge of Allegiance

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June 28, 2005 • In 2002, a federal judge ruled that the "under God" portion of the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of church and state. An uproar ensued. But as Richard J. Ellis, author of To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, points out in his book, those words were not included in the pledge when it was written in 1892 — they were added in 1950. Ellis is the Mark O. Hatfield Professor of Politics at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.

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