Being a Record of the Underground Railroad

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Petition of Northern Blacks to Lincoln

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Sic Semper Tyrranis

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Pvt. Wilson Wood

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Emancipation

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Benjamin Bannon's Letter

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We're Gwine to Fight

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Freed Negroes in New Bern

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Hymn of the Freedmen

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African American Refugees

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Frederick Douglass Quote

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Charlotte Forten Grimke Journal

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Contraband from Fort Monroe

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Henry Highland Garnett's Speech

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Lincoln Writes the Emancipation Proclamation

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Emancipation Fact-Finding Mission

Emancipation Fact-Finding Mission Live Binder

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* How does it relate to the question: "How did slaves gain their freedom?"