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70 Honor Ex-Slave Who Chose ‘Freedom’ As His Adopted Name

70 Honor Ex-Slave Who Chose ‘Freedom’ As  His Adopted Name Boy Scout Tim Simmons, Troop 9, Edmeston, plays taps this afternoon after a historical marker was unveiled honoring Cato Freedom at the Butternut Valley Cemetery, Town of Burlington, where he is buried.  A former slave from Norwich, Conn., he won his freedom for fighting with Gen. Ebenezer Huntington’s Continental troops during the American Revolution.  More than 70 local historians and history enthusiasts gathered today as Lee Fisher of the NAACP, Oneonta…
May 20, 2017

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