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Preface for Instructors | |
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Introduction for Students | |
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Ancient America: Before 1492 | |
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A Taino Origin Story | |
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Ramon Pane, On Taino Religious Practices | |
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A Seneca Origin Narrative | |
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | |
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Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative | |
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"In the Beginning" | |
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Aristotle on Masters and Slaves | |
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The Politics, ca. 300 B.C. | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492-1600 | |
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The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal | |
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King Afonso and King Joao III, Correspondence, 1526 | |
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Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians" | |
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The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 | |
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A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520 | |
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632 | |
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A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex | |
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Sir Thomas More Describes New World Utopia | |
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Utopia, 1515 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 | |
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Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia | |
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Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623 | |
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Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia | |
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Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622 | |
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Francisco Pareja Instructs Spanish Missionaries about the Sins of Florida's Timucuan Indians | |
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Confessionario, 1613 | |
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Sex and Race Relations | |
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Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681 | |
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Bacon's Rebellion | |
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Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 | |
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The Arbella Sermon | |
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John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 | |
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Observations of New England Indians | |
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Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643 | |
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Keeping Order in a Puritan Community | |
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Suffolk County Court Records, 1671-1673 | |
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A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation | |
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The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682 | |
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Words of the Bewitched | |
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Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770 | |
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Confessions of a Thief and Rapist | |
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A Boston Broadside, 1768 | |
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Poor Richard's Advice | |
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Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 | |
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An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry | |
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Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 | |
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Advertisements for Runaway Slaves | |
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South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 | |
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A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768 | |
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Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775 | |
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An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre | |
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Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772 | |
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A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party | |
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George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834 | |
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Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire | |
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To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774-1775 | |
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George Washington Concludes That the Crisis Has Arrived | |
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Letters, 1774 | |
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Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies | |
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Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The War for America, 1775-1783 | |
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Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence | |
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Common Sense, January 1776 | |
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Letters of John and Abigail Adams | |
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Correspondence, 1776 | |
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George Washington Seeks Congressional Support for the Continental Army | |
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Letter to John Hancock, President, Continental Congress, September 24, 1776 | |
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Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army | |
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Memoir, 1798 | |
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Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises | |
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Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776 | |
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Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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Building a Republic, 1775-1789 | |
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Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church | |
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Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833 | |
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Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race | |
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Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 | |
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Making the Case for the Constitution | |
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James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787 | |
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Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution | |
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Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 | |
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The Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution | |
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Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 | |
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Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800 | |
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Why Free Government Has Always Failed | |
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William Manning, The Key of Libberty, 1798 | |
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A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions | |
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A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791 | |
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Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky | |
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Journal, 1788-1789 | |
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Alexander Hamilton on the Economy | |
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Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 | |
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President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation | |
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Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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Republicans in Power, 1800-1824 | |
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A Jeffersonian Sailmaker's Fourth of July Address | |
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Peter Wendover, Oration, July 4, 1806 | |
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James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812 | |
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Confession, 1818 | |
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James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans | |
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Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 | |
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President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy | |
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Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803 | |
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Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806 | |
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Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone | |
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840 | |
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David Crockett Hunts Bear in Western Tennessee | |
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, 1834 | |
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President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation | |
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Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 | |
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Cherokees Debate Removal | |
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John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836 | |
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Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837 | |
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Sarah Grimke on the Status of Women | |
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Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838 | |
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David Walker Demands Emancipation | |
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Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The New West and Free North, 1840-1860 | |
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The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality | |
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The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845 | |
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That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration | |
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Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 | |
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A Farmer's View of His Wife | |
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Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846 | |
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A Texan Enlists to Fight in the Mexican War | |
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James K. Holland, Diary, 1846 | |
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Gold Fever | |
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Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The Slave South, 1820-1860 | |
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Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son | |
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Interview, 1873 | |
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Plantation Rules | |
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Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838 | |
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Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist | |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 | |
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The Proslavery Argument | |
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James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845 | |
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Hinton Helper Demands Abolition for the Good of White Southerners | |
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The Impending Crisis of the South, 1857 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The House Divided, 1846-1861 | |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854 | |
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The Antislavery Constitution | |
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Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860 | |
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The Proslavery Constitution | |
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Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860 | |
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A Free African American Concludes Emigration Is Necessary | |
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Granville B. Blanks, Letter to the Editor, 1852 | |
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Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power | |
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Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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The Crucible of War, 1861-1865 | |
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President Lincoln's War Aims | |
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Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 | |
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The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 | |
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A Former Slave's War Aims | |
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Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863 | |
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The New York Draft Riots | |
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Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863 | |
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A Virginia Woman Confronts Union Foragers | |
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Nancy Emerson, Diary, 1864 | |
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General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War | |
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Correspondence, 1864 | |
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Comparative Questions | |
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Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South | |
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Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 | |
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Black Codes Enacted in the South | |
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Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 | |
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Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families | |
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Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 | |
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A Black Convention in Alabama | |
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Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867 | |
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Klan Violence against Blacks | |
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Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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Comparative Questions | |