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The March to Freedom |
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Chapters 10-13 . From Slavery to Freedom, 7th edition. John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. M-oss, Jr. McGraw Hill, 1998. Chapter 7: Blacks and Manifest Destiny; Chapter 8: That Peculiar Instinstitution; Chapter 9: Quasi- Free Blacks |
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Freedom's Black Vanguard by Benjamin Quarles
From Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience, edited by Nathan Huggins and Martin Kilson, Harcourt Brace, 1971. |
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The Negro Convention Movement by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease
From Key Issues in he Afro-American Experience, edited by Nathan Huggins and Martin Kilson, Harcourt Brace, 1971
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? A speech delived by Frederick Douglass in 1852.
Sojourner Truth |
Civil War and Emancipation |
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From From Key Issues in he Afro-American Experience, edited by Nathan Huggins and Martin Kilson, Harcourt Brace, 1971.
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The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863
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Our Lincoln by Eric Foner
A contemporary look at Abraham Lincoln and and
what Lincoln has meant to American history.
From The Nation, January 26, 2009. |
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Soldiers of God's Wrath by VINCENT HARDING
From Major Problems in African American History, Volume I edited by Thomas Holt and Elsa Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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Black Self-Assertion Before and After Emancipation
From Major Problems in African American History, Volume I edited by Thomas Holt and Elsa Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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