The story of a free Black woman who built a life in Oregon.
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Photographs of women who disguised themselves as men to fight during the Civil War.
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Sources that illustrate the loyalty oaths Confederate women when their lands were conquered by Union armies.
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The story of the enslaved woman who challenged slavery in the highest court in the U.S.
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The life story of a woman who survived slavery and built a new life in Reconstruction.
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The life story of a woman who served with the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry and struggled to find her place in the Reconstruction Era.
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The story of Elizabeth Jennings, who fought the segregation of New York City streetcars in 1854.
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The conditions required of free Black people who wanted to live in the state of Missouri.
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The constitution of the first female abolitionist society, started by free Black women in Massachusetts.
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Two letters that illustrate Choctaw slaveholding and demonstrate that enslaved people were caught up in the removal of the Choctaw Nation.
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