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| Conquest And Colliding Worlds | |
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| The Iroquois Describe the Beginning of the World, n.d | |
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| The Portuguese Describe Battles with West Africans, 1448 | |
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| Recounts His First Encounters with Native People, 1493 | |
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| Relates an Aztec Chronicler's Account of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs, 1519 | |
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| A European Artist Illustrates a Smallpox Outbreak among Nahau Indians, 1585 | |
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| English Artist John White Depicts Indian Land Use, 1619 | |
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| Records a Native Oral Tradition of the First Arrival of Europeans on Manhattan Island (1610), 1818 | |
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| Describes Indian Responses to the English, 1634 | |
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| The Indians' New World | |
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| The Indians' Old World | |
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| The Southern Colonies In British America | |
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| A British Official, Recounts an Indian Attack on Early Virginia Settlement, 1622 | |
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| Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne Laments His Condition in Virginia, 1623 | |
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| A Resident of Maryland, Argues That Servants Profit from Life in the Colonies, 1666 | |
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| Leader of a Rebellion, Recounts the Misdeeds of the Virginia Governor, 1676 | |
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| Virginia's Statutes Illustrate the Declining Status of African American Slaves, 1660-1705 | |
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| Southern Planter William Byrd Describes His Views Toward Learning and His Slaves, 1709-1710 | |
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| Illustration of Slaves Cultivating Tobacco, 1738 | |
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| African Olaudah Equiano Recounts the Horrors of Enslavement, 1757 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch | |
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| The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and Blacks | |
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| Colonial New England And The Middle Colonies In British America | |
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| Puritan Leader John Winthrop Provides a Model of Christian Charity, 1630 | |
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| Anne Bradstreet Discusses Her Children in the Colonies, 1656 | |
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| A New England Woman, Recounts Her Experience of Captivity and Escape from the Wampanoag During King Philip's War, 1675 | |
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| Proprietor William Penn Promotes His Colony, 1681 | |
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| Examination and Testimony of Tituba, a Servant-Slave in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 | |
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| A Slave, Phillis Wheatley, Laments the Death of Revivalist George Whitefield, 1770 | |
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| Dr. Alexander Hamilton Depicts the Material Acquisitions of Northern Colonists, 1744 | |
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| Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German Immigrant, Portrays the Difficulties of Immigration, 1750 | |
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| Worlds of Wonder in the Northern Colonies | |
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| Worlds of Goods in the Northern Colonies | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| The Stamp Act Congress Condemns the Stamp Act, 1765 | |
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| Virginian Patrick Henry Warns the British to Maintain American Liberties, 1775 | |
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| Pamphleteer Thomas Paine Advocates the "Common Sense" of Independence, 1776 | |
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| Abigail and John Adams Debate Women's Rights, 1776 | |
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| A Song to Inspire Revolution, 1776 | |
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| Mohawk Leader Joseph Brant Commits the Loyalty of His People to Britain, 1776 | |
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| African Americans Petition for Freedom, 1777 | |
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| General Washington Argues for Greater Military Funding by Portraying the Plight of Soldiers at Valley Forge, 1778 | |
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| Radical Possibilities of the American Revolution | |
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| The Radical Revolution from the "Bottom Up." | |
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| The Making Of The Constitution | |
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| The Articles of Confederation Stress the Rights of States, 1781 | |
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| Cato, an African American, Pleads for the Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania, 1781 | |
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| Slaveholders in Virginia Argue Against the Abolition of Slavery, 1784-1785 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Proposes the Protection of Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1786 | |
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| Daniel Shays and Followers Declare Their Intent to Protect Themselves Against "Tyranny," 1787 | |
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| Generals William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln Regret the Disorder That Characterized Shays's Rebellion, 1787 | |
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| The Federalist Papers Illustrate the Advantages of Ratification of the Constitution, 1787-1788 | |
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| Patrick Henry Condemns the Centralization of Government If the Constitution Is Ratified, 1788 | |
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| George Washington Promises Freedom of Religion for Jewish People, 1790 | |
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| The Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution | |
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| The Hope of the Framers to Recruit Citizens to Enter Public Life | |
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| Competing Visions Of National Development In The Early National Period | |
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| Republican Thomas Jefferson Celebrates the Virtue of the Yeoman Farmer, 1785 | |
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| Judith Sargent Murray Argues for the "Equality of the Sexes," 1790 | |
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| Federalist Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791 | |
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| Federalists Represent Democratic-Republicans as Secretive, Arrogant, and Rude, 1793 | |
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| A Republican, Fears for the Future of the Nation, 1798 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Advances the Power of the States, 1798 | |
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| Chief Justice John Marshall Argues for the Primacy of the Federal Government, 1803 | |
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| Tom Paine Eulogizes George Washington, 1800 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Fears of the Federalists | |
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| The Fears of the Jeffersonian Republicans | |
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| Foreign Policy, Westward Movement, And Indian Removal In The Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| President George Washington Warns Against "Entangling Alliances," 1796 | |
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| William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Enters into Diplomacy with Native People, 1806 | |
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| Iroquois Chief Red Jacket Decries the Day When Whites Arrived, 1805 | |
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| William Cullen Bryant Satirizes the Embargo Act, 1808 | |
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| Shawnee Chief Tecumseh Recounts the Misdeeds of Whites and Calls for Indian Unity, 1810 | |
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| Tenskwatawa (The Prophet) Relates His Journey to the World Above, 1810 | |
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| President James Monroe Declares That European Powers May Not Interfere in the Americas, 1823 | |
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| The Cherokee Nation Pleads to Remain "on the Land of Our Fathers," 1830 | |
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| President Andrew Jackson Defends Indian Removal, 1833 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Indians Utilizing a Strategy of Armed Resistance | |
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| Indians Utilizing a Strategy of Accommodation | |
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| The Transportation, Market, And Communication Revolutions In The Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Slave Charles Ball Mourns the Growth of Cotton Culture and "Sale Down the River," ca. 1800 | |
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| Chief Justice John Marshall Advances a Broad Construction of the Constitution, 1819, 1824 | |
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| President John Quincy Adams Urges Internal Improvements, 1825 | |
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| A Family in Illinois Struggles with Marketing Their Crops, 1831 | |
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| Harriet Hanson Robinson, a "Lowell Girl," Describes Her Labor in a Textile Mill, 1831 | |
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| European Visitor Alexis de Tocqueville Considers the Influence of Democracy on the Family, 1831 | |
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| Author Charles Dickens Describes Travel on an Early Railroad Train, 1842 | |
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| A Guidebook Instructs Women on the Role of Mother, 1845 | |
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| South Carolina Governor James Henry Hammond Instructs His Overseer on Running the Plantation, c. 1840s | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Market Revolution and Changes in Women's Work | |
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| The Changes Wrought by Cotton, Transportation, and Communication | |
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| Nationalism, Sectionalism, And Expansionism In The Age Of Jackson | |
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| A Song to Put Andrew Jackson in the White House, c. 1820s | |
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| Vice President John C. Calhoun Argues That Tariffs Disadvantage the South, 1828 | |
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| Senator Daniel Webster Lays Out His Nationalist Vision, 1830 | |
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| President Andrew Jackson Condemns the Rights of "Nullification" and Secession, 1832 | |
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| President Andrew Jackson Vetoes the Bank Bill, 1832 | |
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| Lieutenant-Colonel Jos? Enrique de la Pe?a Defends Mexico's Actions Against the Texans, 1836 | |
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| Michel Chevelier, a French Visitor, Marvels at the Pageantry of Politics, 1839 | |
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| John L. O'Sullivan, a Democratic Newspaperman, Defines "Manifest Destiny," 1845 | |
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| Walter Colton, a Californian, Describes the Excitement of the Gold Rush, 1848 | |
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| 1000 Essays | |
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| Antebellum Politics as Raucous Democracy | |
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| Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin ? | |
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| Antebellum Politics as Political Manipulation | |
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| Reform And The Great Awakening In The Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Documents | |
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| Peter Cartwright, a Methodist Itinerant Preacher, Marvels at the Power of Religious Revivals, 1801 | |
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| African American Abolitionist David Walker Castigates the United States for Its Slave System, 1829 | |
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| White Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Calls for Immediate Abolition, 1831 | |
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| A Description of the Prophet Matthias and His Attacks on Women, 1835 | |
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| Angelina Grimk? Appeals to Christian Women to Oppose Slavery, 1836 | |
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| Reformer Dorothea Dix Depicts the Horrible Conditions Endured by the Mentally Ill, 1843 | |
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| Joseph Smith Records a Revelation on Plural Marriage, 1843 | |
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| The Seneca Falls Convention Declares Women's Rights, 1848 | |
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| Former Slave Sojourner Truth Links Women's Rights to Antislavery, 1851 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Religious Reform as a Form of Social Control | |
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| Religion as Inhibiting and Liberating: The Complicated Case of Sojourner Truth | |
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| Commercial Development And Immigration In The North At Midcentury | |
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| Documents | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville Marvels at the Mobile Northern Society, 1831 | |
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| Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse Fears That Immigrants Will Ruin American Inequality, 1835 | |
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| Essayist Orestes Brownson Condemns the Plight of "Wage Slaves," 1840 | |
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| Gustof Unonius, a Swedish Immigrant, Reflects on Life in the United States, 1841-1842 | |
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| A Lowell Factory Girl Describes a Week in the Mill, 1845 | |
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| New Yorker George Templeton Strong Berates the Immigrants in His Midst, 1838-1857 | |
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| James Bowlin, a Congressman, Marvels at the Possibilities of Western Lands, 1846 | |
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| Irish Americans Sing About Their Struggles and Successes, c. 1860s | |
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| Essays | |
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| White Slaves, Wage Slaves, and Free White Labor in the North | |
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| Free Labor and Wage Labor in the North | |
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| Agriculture And Slavery In The South At Midcentury | |
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| Documents | |
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| A North Carolina Law Prohibits Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, 1831 | |
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| Samuel Cartwright, a Southern Doctor, Theorizes About the Peculiar Diseases of Slaves, 1851 | |
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| Virginian George Fitzhugh Argues That Slavery Is a Positive Good That Improves Society, 1854 | |
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| African American Josiah Henson Portrays the Violence and Fears in Slave Life, 1858 | |
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| Southern Author Daniel Hundley Robinson Depicts the White Yeoman Farmer, 1860 | |
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| Harriet Jacobs Deplores Her Risks in Being a Female Slave, 1861 | |
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| Southerner Mary Chestnut Describes Her Hatred of Slavery from a White Woman's View, 1861 | |
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| Northerner Frederick Law Olmsted Depicts the Economic Costs of Slavery, 1861 | |
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| Three Slave Songs Recorded by Whites, 1867 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Slaves and the "Commerce" of the Slave Trade | |
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| The Neighborhoods and Intimate Lives of Slaves | |
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| Careening Toward Civil War | |
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| Documents | |
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| Senator John C. Calhoun Proposes Ways to Preserve the Union, 1850 | |
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| Frederick Douglass Asks How a Slave Can Celebrate the Fourth of July, 1852 | |
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| Reviewers Offer Differing Opinions About Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 | |
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| Axalla John Hoole, a Southerner, Depicts "Bleeding Kansas," 1856 | |
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| Senator Charles Sumner Addresses the "Crime Against Kansas," 1856 | |
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| Chief Justice Roger Taney Determines the Legal Status of Slaves, 1857 | |
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| Senate Candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Debate Their Positions on Slavery, 1858 | |
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| Republican William Seward Warns of an Irrepressible Conflict, 1858 | |
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| Abolitionist John Brown Makes His Last Statement to the Court Before Execution, 1859 | |
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| The Charleston Mercury Argues That Slavery Must Be Protected, 1860 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Political Divisions That Contributed to Civil War | |
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| The Economic Divisions That Contributed to Civil War | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Documents | |
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| Senator Robert Toombs Compares Secession with the American Revolution, 1860 | |
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| Frederick Douglass Calls for the Abolition of Slavery, 1862 | |
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| Margaret Junkin Preston Describes Southern Suffering in Her Diary, 1862 | |
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| James Henry Gooding, an African American Soldier, Pleads for Equal Treatment, 1863 | |
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| Tally Simpson, a Confederate Soldier, Recounts the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 | |
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| Mary A. Livermore, a Northern Woman, Recalls Her Role in the Sanitary Commission, 1863 | |
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| Two Artistic Representations of Emancipation, 1863, 1864 | |
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| Congressman Clement Vallandigham Denounces the Union War Effort, 1863 | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln Calls for Peace and Justice in His Second Inaugural Address, 1865 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Role of Abraham Lincoln in the Abolition of Slavery | |
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| The Role of African Americans in the Abolition of Slavery | |
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| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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| Documents | |
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| William Howard Day, an African American Minister, Salutes the Nation and a Monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1865 | |
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| A Southern Song Opposes Reconstruction, c. 1860s | |
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| Louisiana Black Codes Reinstate Provisions of the Slave Era, 1865 | |
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| President Andrew Johnson Denounces Changes in His Program of Reconstruction, 1867 | |
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| Congressman Thaddeus Stevens Demands a Radical Reconstruction, 1867 | |
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| Representative Benjamin Butler Argues That President Andrew Johnson Be Impeached, 1868 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Questions Abolitionist Support for Female Enfranchisement, 1868 | |
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| Lucy McMillan, a Former Slave in South Carolina, Testifies About White Violence, 1871 | |
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| Father Abram Ryan Proclaims Undying Love for the Confederate States of America, 1879 | |
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| Francis Miles Finch Mourns and Celebrates Civil War Soldiers from the South and North, 1879 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Continuing the War: White and Black Violence During Reconstruction | |
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| Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation | |
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