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FEBRUARY 18, 2002
National Independence Day in Gambia
1688
First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic "Germantown Protest" denounced slavery and the slave trade.
1865
Rebels abandoned Charleston. First Union troops to enter the city included Twenty-first U.S.C.T., followed by two companies of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.
1867
An institution was founded at Augusta, Georgia which was later to become Morehouse College, following its relocation to Atlanta. Morehouse College is one of the most prestigious black colleges in the nation.
1896
H. Grenon patents razor stropping device
Grenon, H.
Razor Stropping Device
Feb. 18, 1896
Patent No. 554,867
1931
On this day Toni Morrison, who will win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, is born in Lorain, Ohio.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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