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The Anti-Slavery Record Vol. 3 for 1837

1837

American Anti-Slavery Society

JB00522

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: African Americans after Slavery

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 All freedmen . . . over the age of eighteen years, found on the second Monday in January, 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together, either in the day or...

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Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freeedom

As part of a Google Cultural Institute initiative on African American history, the Gilder Lehrman Institute created six digital exhibits featuring Gilder Lehrman’s rich materials relating to African American history. In celebration of...

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The Influence of Chrisitanity In Promoting the Abolition of Slavery In Europe

1846

Babington, Churchill, fl. 1846

JB00315

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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery

1838

Roper, Moses, fl. 1838

JB00296

Video

Lincoln, Slavery, and Nineteenth-Century Abolition

Video

Dred and Harriet Scott: A Family Story of Slavery and Freedom

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

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Mitigation of Slavery in two parts [Parts one and two]

1969

Dickson, William, fl. 1969

JB00549

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Burdens of the South, in Verse, Or Poems on Slavery

1864

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

JB00139

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Mr. Upham's speech on the extension of slavery: together with the ordinance of 1787.

1849

Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875

Opposes the extension of slavery and argues that it compromises the Constitution. Delivered in the House of Representatives 20 February 1849. Printed at the Tri-weekly gazette office in Salem, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.129