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Disfranchisement of African American voters in Virginia, 1901

Government and Civics

In February 1901, the Virginia General Assembly authorized a constitutional convention to draft election reforms. The convention, supported vehemently by Democrats, aimed to disfranchise African Americans without violating the...

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Government and Civics

Collection Item

Book

1839

Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895

American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses.

Possibly a first edition. Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Weld asserts, "A majority of the facts and testimony contained in this work rests upon the authority of slaveholders, whose names and residences are given to the public, as...

GLC05119

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Manuscript document signed

circa 3 March 1783

[Certificate of service for African American soldier Primas Hubbell]

Connecticut Line Continental Army, Revolutionary War African American soldier Primas Hubbell. Certification of service signed by three Kent, CT selectmen; with order for delivery of pay to Joseph Pratt, signed with "X" by Hubbell; and with...

GLC09365.01

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Guided Readings: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s

Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Why are we in South Vietnam? We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Vietnam. . . . We have made a national pledge to help South Vietnam...

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Disfranchisement of African American voters in Virginia, 1901

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Guided Readings: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s

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