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Thomas Garrett and the Underground Railroad

Hidden Figures

By day he worked as an iron merchant – but by night, Thomas Garrett helped thousands escape slavery as a station master on the Underground...

Frederick Douglass’ Composite Nation

Composite Nation

Abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass believed that the U.S. could become the greatest nation in history – if it accepted the defining principles set out in his speech, Composite...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Did a Book Spark the Civil War?

America Explained

It was published nine years before a shot was fired. And was written by a woman. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin fan the flames of the American Civil...

Black Soldiers and the Fight for Citizenship

America Explained

For those enslaved, it was the perpetrator of countless horrors. So why did almost 200,000 African-Americans put their lives on the line to preserve the United...

Lives of the Enslaved During the Civil War

America Explained

How did life change for enslaved people as the American Civil War raged around...
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