Slavery, united states
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Women of Colonial America (Women in History)
Letters of the late Bishop England to the Hon. John Forsyth, on the subject of domestic slavery
Harriet Tubman
Subjects of slavery, agents of change
Lincoln and slavery
African-Americans in the thirteen colonies
Slave culture
Slavery in Florida
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The American conflict, a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64
An Apple for Harriet Tubman
Silvia Dubois
Slavery and American economic development
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans
A rumor of revolt
A journey through Texas
Amistad
Sisters against slavery
Hidden in plain view
The peculiar institution
The Emancipation Proclamation
Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown
The price of freedom
The Underground Railroad and slavery through primary sources
Race and reconciliation
Tales from the Haunted South
A disease in the public mind
Twelve years a slave
A timeline of the abolitionist movement
Slavery unseen
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