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Apr 25, 2024 · Slavery existed in the United States from its founding in 1776 and became the main cause behind the country's bloody Civil War.
Oct 29, 2009 · Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War. She was also a nurse, a Union spy ...
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Oct 27, 2009 · The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
Oct 14, 2009 · African American history began with slavery, as white European settlers first brought Africans to the continent to serve as enslaved workers. After the Civil War, the racist legacy of slavery...
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The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and...
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Jun 23, 2020 · Poems were put to music and performed to celebrate the eradication of slavery, and ballads and hip-hop have been leveraged to protest violence and discrimination against Black Americans.
May 30, 2012 · In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the...
