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by WVVLhHpCQb Nov 9, 2022 | 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...
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by WVVLhHpCQb Jan 26, 2022 | America Explained
The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important and misunderstood documents in US history. So, what did it actually...
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by WVVLhHpCQb Jun 14, 2021 | Women and the American Story
The story of how an enslaved woman became one of the most important social justice activists in American...
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by WVVLhHpCQb Feb 24, 2021 | Museum of Artifacts That Made America
Abolitionist John Brown commissioned a blacksmith to produce hundreds of pikes – deadly spear-like weapons made from iron and wood, for his team of militiamen to raid the armoury and help set enslaved people free. But it ended in failure and Brown became the first US...
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by WVVLhHpCQb Dec 4, 2020 | Women and the American Story
Elizabeth Freeman was born into slavery but legally won her right to freedom in the courts years before the abolition of slavery in...
