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HIS 112 - Tracing the African American Experience

Start your African American Studies research here! This guide features resources relevant to research in African American history and culture, race and identity, and the African diaspora.

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DVD 12 Years

History - Slavery and the Slave Trade

Library and Internet resources that may be useful for doing research on the history of slavery and the slave trade.

The Fugitive Slave Law in the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: American Society Transforms Its Culture

This book shows how abolitionists used rhetoric and discourse, rather than violence, to change opinions about slavery.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover.

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