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How did enslaved African Americans envision and pursue freedom? |
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How did free African Americans participate in anti-slavery campaigns and in individual slaves' efforts to be free? |
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How did these efforts set the stage for African Americans as a free people after the Civil War?
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Abolition » Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | On the abolition circuit, selections from black activists' accounts, 1840s |
| - | Facts for the People of the Free States, pamphlet of an anti-slavery society, 1847 |
| - | The Anti-Slavery Harp, songs for anti-slavery meetings compiled by William Wells Brown, 1848 |
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Liberia» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Letters from Peyton Skipwith, 1834-1846, selections |
| - | Letters from Samson Ceasar and the former slaves of J. H. Terrell, 1834-1835, 1857-1866 |
| - | Daguerreotypes of Liberian leaders by Augustus Washington, ca. 1857 |
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Civil War II: Soldiers» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Slaves in blue and grey, selections from the WPA narratives, 1930s |
| - | Union sergeant, letter of Lewis Douglass, 1863 |
| - | Wounded Union private, letters of Spotswood Rice, 1864 |
| - | Mother of a Union soldier letter to President Lincoln, 1863 |
| - | Teenaged Confederate aide, narrative of Jacob Stroyer, 1898, Ch. 3 |
| - | Portrait photographs 1861-1865 |
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Emancipation, 1864-1865» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | "We was free. Just like that, we was free": selections from the WPA narratives, 1930s |
| - | "It is my desire to be free," a slave's letter to Lincoln, 1864 |
| - | "The slave can now apply the lash," freedmen's retaliation, Virginia, 1864 |
| - | "American citizens of African descent," freemen's petition, Tennessee, 1865 |
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Image: Photograph (tintype) captioned "Two brothers in arms," between 1860 and 1870. LOC note: "Two unidentified African American soldiers, full-length portrait, wearing uniforms, seated with arms around each other's shoulders, facing front." Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Gladstone Collection.
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