Birthdays

Alfred Horatio Belo
Turns 20 on this date

Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Turns 41 on this date

John Neff Coombs
Turns 36 on this date

John Gray Foster
Turns 36 on this date

Robert Frederick Hoke
Turns 22 on this date

Julia Ward Howe
Turns 40 on this date

Richard Watson Humphriss
Turns 23 on this date

George Washington Johnson
Turns 48 on this date

Edwin Gray Lee
Turns 23 on this date
Events
Documents
Newspaper | (Jackson) Mississippian, “The Oberlin Slave Rescuers,” May 27, 1859 | 05/27/1859 |
Newspaper | Boston (MA) Liberator, “Letter from the Hon. J. R. Giddings,” May 27, 1859 | 05/27/1859 |