By PHIL LUCIANO, Journal Starvia AP PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — If the world were just, the name of Nance Legins-Costley would resonate amid the likes of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist rebels. But her story is hardly known. Not in Illinois, where — despite anti-slavery laws — she was born into bondage. Not […]
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