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Pre-emancipation African-American history | HearLore
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Pre-emancipation African-American history
Slavery in the United StatesIn 1703, more than 42 percent of New York City households held enslaved people in bondage. This figure stood second only to Charleston, South Carolina, where…
Origins of the American Civil WarIn 1787, the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to draft a document that would never use the word slavery. Yet the resulting text embedded the…