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Slave Ships

These vessels were used to transport slaves across the oceans to America.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

This book was written by a White abolitionist. While it gathered people to the abolitionist cause, it also created a long-standing stereotype that many Blacks found degrading and humiliating.

Thomas Jefferson's Plantations

These areas symbolize the contradiction of one founding father's personal writings against slavery and the same person's ownership of many slaves.

The Southern Strategy

This political approach to winning elections was used in the 1960s and 1970s most notably by Richard Nixon to stoke racial anxieties and win White voters.

Harper's Ferry

This area of a failed slave rebellion symbolizes some Blacks' quest to rise up and end slavery in the United States.

The Great Emancipator

This phrase was a moniker for President Abraham Lincoln, whose legacy on slavery and the treatment of Black Americans is more complicated than...

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