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African Americans and Emancipation

Historians increasingly understand emancipation was not a...

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The First Age of Reform

“In the history of the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson declared in 1841, “the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.”[1] Not much a joiner of causes...

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery

Abolitionism emerged in America as part of a massive fusion of reform movements related to...

The fugitive slave clause in Article 4, Section 2 of the US Constitution. (Gilde

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Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals

In the summer of 1852 Frederick...

Slave leg chain, ca. 1840-1850. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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The Material Culture of Slave Resistance

Artifacts tell stories. Sometimes the tales are unclear or even contradictory, and sometimes artifacts—not...

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1870 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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“Hidden Practices”: Frederick Douglass on Segregation and Black Achievement, 1887

Frederick Douglass recalled his feelings when slavery came...

Eliza Crossing the Ice from a scarf of scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin. (GLC06894)

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence

One hundred years after Harriet...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1846. (GLC05117)

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The Slave Narratives: A Genre and a Source

The autobiographies of ex-slaves in America are the foundation of an African American...

“An Appeal to the Women of the United States” (Washington DC, 1871) (GLC08999)

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Reconstruction and the Battle for Woman Suffrage

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Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United

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Lincoln’s Interpretation of the Civil War

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