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Gabrielle Foreman and Sarah Patterson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special thanks<\/strong> to CCP senior researcher Caleb Trotter for providing technical assistance with data visualizations and to fellow ENGL 641 student, Harry Lewis, for sharing his <a href=\"\/boardinghouses\/good-boarding-home-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essay<\/a> on boardinghouses in the postbellum conventions movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special thanks<\/strong> to Gale, a Cengage Company, and Accessible Archives Inc.\u00ae for granting permission for the use of the materials from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gale.com\/c\/19th-century-us-newspapers\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19th Century U.S. Newspaper<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessible-archives.com\/collections\/african-american-newspapers\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>African American Newspapers: The 19th Century<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Colored Conventions Project<\/strong> works with teaching partners and their students to create digital content on the rich history of Black political organizing in the nineteenth-century. Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/oldsite.coloredconventions.org\/teaching\/\">Teaching Partners page<\/a> to browse the curriculum and find information on becoming a teaching partner.<\/p>\n<h4>Related Book<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/about\/book\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4514\" src=\"https:\/\/oldsite.coloredconventions.org\/boardinghouses\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/ccpbook9781469654263-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the accompanying article &#8220;Where Did They Eat? Where Did They Stay? 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