At the Battle of Beicang 北倉之戰) the Eight National Alliance forced Chinese troops out of their positions and into retreat.
Bishop of Portland James Augustine Healy died at age 70. He was the first African American Bishop.
He'd been born into slavery to an Irish immigrant father and enslaved mother who had a species, sort of, of common law marriage. The union occured when he was 33 and she was 16. Her ancestry included a fair degree of European heritage, which would lead to their children appearing to be of European ethnicity. The union was not as surprising as it might seem and inspite of the burden of slavery, such unions occured, but could only have common law status.
The ten children to the union had apparently originally also been enslaved but were freed. The family, in spite of the lack of a licit marriage, must have been religious as Bishop Healy was not its only member to enter religious life. His brother Patrick was a Jesuit, his brother Alexander was a Priest, his sister Amanda a member of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, and his sister Eliza a member of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal and the first African American abbess. Those who had secular vocations were also high achieving. They were remarkably well educated, something that had been secured by their parents with some difficulty.
Apparently their parents had intended later in their lives to sell their plantation and move north, but death intervened.
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