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The history of Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery
In June 1865, the South's slaves had already technically been free for more than two years thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation, but true freedom for millions still had yet to come. In the ...
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“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, the subject of slavery and its connection ...
Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...
On the 200 manicured acres of the Whitney Plantation stands the pristine white main house, built with the blood and sweat of ...
“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than ...
From the horrors of slavery to the race for the atomic bomb, these five historical films turn American history into ...
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