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Slavery and the Mexican-American War

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Frederick Douglass Writes His Autobiography

Frederick Douglass Writes His Autobiography

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What Was the Dred Scott Decision?

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John Brown Puts His Accusers on Trial

John Brown Puts His Accusers on Trial

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Lincoln's Uncertain Commitment to Emancipation

Lincoln's Uncertain Commitment to Emancipation

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William Lloyd Garrison, Pacifism, and Abolitionism

William Lloyd Garrison, Pacifism, and Abolitionism

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The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War

The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War

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Culebra Cut

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Henry Ford Chapter 1

Henry Ford Chapter 1

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The Ford Assembly Line

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Henry Ford's Experiments with Auto Design

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Interview with Producer Sarah Colt

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American Experience

Bearing Witness: American Slavery As It Is

The 1839 book 'American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses', written by Theodore Weld, his wife Angelina Grimke, and her sister Sarah Grimke, documented slavery's horrors.