Vermont Public Radio: Historian's research leads to honors for former slave

By John DellaContrada

Release Date: October 13, 2008 This content is archived.

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A story on Vermont Public Radio reports a former slave who won his freedom and settled in Poultney will be honored by the town on Sunday with a historic marker, noting that a UB professor did research and published her work on the man in 2005.

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