Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States
Excerpts From Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave

By vchoi • February 26, 2014 Uncategorized

The memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, chronicles the life of Solomon Northup, who was born free in New York, but captured and forced into slavery for 12 years in Louisiana. Continue reading

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Slavery in the United States
Booker T. Washington’s Childhood Memory of the Emancipation Proclamation

By erica • February 26, 2014 Uncategorized

As 9-year-old boy, author and former slave Booker T. Washington remembers the feelings of freedom in the air after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1883. Continue reading

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Slavery in the United States
Excerpts From Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave

Slavery in the United States
Booker T. Washington’s Childhood Memory of the Emancipation Proclamation

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