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Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right

Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of a chair

Photo shows the schooner Hattie Hutt - built in Saugatuck, MI., 1873, wrecked 1929; a Great Lakes vessel). Source: Charles Seavey, 2015)

Excerpt explaining the decision of the Dred Scott case.

Stylized text of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and freed slaves in the Confederacy.