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Six-year-old Ruby Bridges’ entry into a formerly all-white school provoked outbursts of ha
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A look at the demonization of African Americans and the propaganda campaign against them.
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Learn about Plessy Homer and his calculated act that led to the case Plessy vs Ferguson.
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The cotton gin revolutionized the global textile industry and expanded slavery.
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Learn about the Nat Turner Rebellion, and how it affected Southern slaveholders.
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Learn about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and what led to its implementation.
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After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass became prominent in the abolitionist community.
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Slaves created a new culture, despite Europeans' efforts to erase their identities.
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Culture and ideas pervaded the Black Atlantic and continue to inflect our traditions.
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The slave revolt in St. Domingue (now Haiti) led to the world’s first black republic.
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Hutchinson’s rebellion (also known as the Stono rebellion) was a failed slave revolt.
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Runaway slaves who fled to St. Augustine, Florida, were granted freedom by the Spanish.
