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How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
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Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano, from the frontispiece of The Interesting Narrative of the Life...
The British Library (Public Domain)
Olaudah Equiano's autobiography
Title page from the first edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of...
Fugitive Slave Acts cartoon
“Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law,” cartoon criticizing the Fugitive Slave Acts,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-4550)
Illustration c. 1870 from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Illustration c. 1870 from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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Elizabeth Keckley
A portrait of Elizabeth Keckley from the frontispiece to her autobiography, Behind...
"Behind the Scenes," by Elizbeth Keckley
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