The story of an enslaved Native woman caught up in the Salem witch hysteria.
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The story of a Black woman who rose from plantation slave to plantation mistress in colonial Florida.
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This poem by Phillis Wheatley demonstrates how enslaved and free Black people saw the American Revolution as an opportunity to end the systematic oppression of Black people in the colonies.
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This ledger records the biographical information about every enslaved or free Black person who evacuated New York with the British at the end of the war.
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The story of a woman enslaved by George Washington who self-emancipated during the war.
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The story of the enslaved woman whose court case set the legal precedent to abolish slavery in Massachusetts.
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The story of an enslaved woman whose bid for freedom failed during the American Revolution.
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These court cases reveal how enslaved Black people in Virginia sought freedom in the courts after the colonial government made manumitting enslaved people the responsibility of the government.
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The story of a woman for sale in colonial New York.
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The story of an enslaved black woman caught up in the hysteria of the 1741 slave uprising.
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