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Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and became the 18th President of the United States.
Harpers Ferry is the site of John Brown's 1859 raid against slavery at the US armory.
Frederick Douglass confronts the moral implications of Quakers purchasing his freedom.
Willis Hodges becomes the first Black lighthouse keeper at Cape Henry Lighthouse in 1870.
John Wilkes Booth's deep-seated animosity towards Abraham Lincoln, fueled by political tensions and personal contradictions, culminates in the President's assassination on April 14, 1865.
Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American, never smiles in his portraits for a reason.
