Jennie Jackson DeHart and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Jennie Jackson sang in the original Fish Jubilee Singers beginning in 1871. In 1885 she married the Nashville preacher Andrew J. DeHart, and the couple Continue Reading
Tag: Self-emancipation
Lane Seminary Debates
Walnut Hills played a central role in the beginning of the Abolitionist movement that demanded an end to slavery in the United States. Lane Theological Continue Reading
James Bradley
James Bradley arrived in Walnut Hills in 1834 as a former slave who bought his own freedom. In the peculiar institution of slavery, African Americans Continue Reading