Dear Rhiannon. More suggested topics: The Lemmon case 1852-60, NY courts free 8 enslaved people traveling with white "owner" Lemmon. Elizabeth Jennings, Black lady tossed off a segregated streetcar, in 1856, sues and wins (100 years before Rosa Parks). Young white lawyer Chester Arthur (later President). Ships: The Creole. The Clotilda (and last surviving enslaved passenger interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston in the late 1920s -- see the book, Barracoon).
