"By 1856, after nearly a decade of income from slave labor that lined his pockets and enabled his entrance into the booming Chicago real estate market, Douglas had become a very rich man." #AuburnWorldHistory
"They covertly funneled the proceeds from his unfree laborers back to Douglas in the North to fuel his political rise and his personal fortune." #AuburnWorldHistory
"For black women, in particular, the 1940s was an era of hope and possibility marred by the persistence of racial and gender inequality." #AuburnWorldHistory