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Penn Foster Career School is a U.S. for-profit, [1] regionally and nationally-accredited [2] [3] distance education school offering career diploma programs and certificate programs. It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools, or ICS. Penn Foster is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The following is a list of notable structures in the United States that were built, at least in part, by enslaved people: . Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–1870) – A railroad project in the southern United States
The Crenshaw House was a "station" on the Reverse Underground Railroad that transported escaped slaves and kidnapped free blacks back to servitude in slave states. The home's third floor attic contains 12 rooms long believed to be where Crenshaw operated a secret slave jail for kidnapped free black and captured runaway slaves. A grand jury ...
Many free states eventually passed "personal liberty laws", which prevented the kidnapping of alleged runaway slaves; however, in the court case known as Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the personal liberty laws were ruled unconstitutional because the capturing of fugitive slaves was a federal matter in which states did not have the power to interfere. [7]
Penn Foster College is a private, for-profit online college headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and presently offers bachelor's and associate degree programs in 22 certified programs, as well as academic certificates .
1796 Runaway advertisement for Oney Judge, a slave from George Washington's presidential household in Philadelphia. When the Dutch and Swedes established colonies in the Delaware Valley of what is now Pennsylvania, in North America, they quickly imported enslaved Africans for labor; the Dutch also transported them south from their colony of New Netherland.
The Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African-American cultural and educational center in the Corners Community on Saint Helena Island. Founded in 1862 by Quaker and Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania , it was the first school founded in the Southern United States specifically for the education of African-Americans.
He remained for four years and started a school for slaves; within a year, however, they were driven first from a schoolhouse to an empty house, and then to his friend's kitchen by club-carrying mobs, and the students finally stopped coming. Spurred by a financial crisis in the area, Rankin decided to complete his family's journey to Ripley.