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This educational module analyzes the role that German nationalism played in the formation and expansion of Nazi Germany as well as its prosecution of the Holocaust. In redefining what it meant to be "German," the Nazi regime appropriated German…

This image shows a group of Philadelphia abolitionists including Robert Purvis. There is also Lucretia Mott who was a women suffragette and abolitionists.

Founder of Society of Friends, usually called Quakers

These are excerpts from Joseph Sturge's book, A Visit to the United States in 1841, and they show what he saw on his visit to the United States. He promoted for the abolition of slavery in the U.S. especiallly after his visit.

John Newton (1725-1807), Slave trader, clergyman and friend of the poet William Cowper.

This painting depicts the moment on June 28, 1776, when the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was presented to the Second Continental Congress. The document stated the principles for which the Revolutionary War was being fought and which…

The statue is in memory of Joseph Sturge at his home city of Birmingham, England.

Writing by John Newton in 1788 titled 'Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade'. 1st print.

Image depicting a slave trading port in Savi, Benin.