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Text on a page discussing the Hereditary Slavery Law in Virginia and its historical context regarding slavery.
Text from a presentation on Thomas Paine's views on slavery and the Declaration of Independence's impact on the Civil War.
A document titled "Primary Source" discussing correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791.
Text document outlining the Missouri Compromise and its relation to the Declaration of Independence and slavery.

Abbreviated Primary Source Set: The Struggle for Abolition

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Text on a page discussing the Hereditary Slavery Law in Virginia and its historical context regarding slavery.
Enactment of Hereditary Slavery Law, Virginia, 1662

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Text from a presentation on Thomas Paine's views on slavery and the Declaration of Independence's impact on the Civil War.
Thomas Paine, “African Slavery in America”, 1775

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A document titled "Primary Source" discussing correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791.
Correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791

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Text document outlining the Missouri Compromise and its relation to the Declaration of Independence and slavery.
U.S. Congress: An Act to Authorize the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government (Missouri Compromise), 1820

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Text on a study guide about the Underground Railroad and principles related to slavery and the Civil War.
The Underground Railroad and Networks to Freedom

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Document describing the principles of the Declaration of Independence and their relation to slavery and the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845

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Text discussing Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" and its relation to the Declaration of Independence and slavery.
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851

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Text from a document about the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and its relation to the Civil War and Declaration of Independence.
U.S. Congress, An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas (Kansas-Nebraska Act), 1854

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Text discussing the Dred Scott v. Sandford case and its connection to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393, 1856

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Text from a document discussing John Brown's final speech and its historical context related to slavery and the Civil War.
John Brown’s Last Speech, 1859

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