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Essay by William Ramsey, assistant professor of history at University of Idaho, on the appearance of pro-slavery literature on campus in December 2004.
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Online exhibit concerning the abolitionist movement in Indiana, organized by Gwendolyn Crenshaw and the Indiana Historical Bureau. An excellent exhibit with extensive primary documentation.
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Part of the African American Odyssey online exhbition from the Library of Congress; includes digitized images of original documents on slavery.
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Guide produced in 2002 by the New Jersey Historical Commission.
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Site commemorating the 120th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Spain; provides Spanish-language resources on antislavery history.
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The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University contains a wide array of digital materials, many of them relating to slavery. The site includes teaching plans and streaming video presentations; an excellent teaching resource.
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Electronic resource list maintained at Stanford University.
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A Library of Congress guide for studying black history and culture. Topics include colonization and Liberia, abolitionists and slavery, western migration and homesteading, and ex-slave narratives.
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University of South Florida project to document the lives of former slaves and their descendants.
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Legacy website of a 1998 PBS documentary, 'Africans in America.' Contains educational information on history of slavery.
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Extensive website on African American genealogy, with information on slave records and a searchable runaway slave advertisement feature.
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Massive database on over 100,000 African American slaves in Louisiana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Website produced by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, the Center for the Public Domain, and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
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Online county-level database on slavery in central Pennsylvania, with many more historical resources. Excellent site.
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Table of contents and introductory essay from James Basker's anthology of antislavery poems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
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A Boston-based group active in present-day antislavery work. Website oriented towards current news in the field, with special attention to Sudan.
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Located at Tulane University and named in honor of the slave ship revolt, the Center is one of the largest research centers in African American history.
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University of Missouri - Kansas City law school website with full materials on the Amistad case.
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A National Park Service site providing information on the sites in Connecticut associated with the Amistad slave ship revolt.
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Founded in 1839, Anti-slavery International is one of the oldest human rights organizations. Its annual reviews and reports provide authoritative information on contemporary slavery issues. An excellent website with up-to-date information.
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Journal issue on contemporary slaveries.
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British Broadcasting Corporation program providing stories from contemporary slavery; broadcast 2005 and available in audio files.
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Electronic education project in the slave narratives compiled by the Federal Writers Project, produced by the New Deal Network.
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A digital project of the Maryland State Archives to document the Underground Railroad, with case studies and interactive materials.
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An online exhibit on the depiction of slaves on Confederate currency. A project of the US Civil War Center at Louisiana State University.
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Reports on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, originally published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
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African Canadian historical society in Nova Scotia dedicated to preserving the history of its fugitive slave community and their descendants.
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Library of Congress site. Presents 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves.
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A District of Columbia-based campaign on issues of enslaved domestic labor in the United States.
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International educational site on the transatlantic slave trade, with numerous school lesson plans. Co-sponsored by UNESCO's Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project and the British Council.
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Useful summary biographies on British abolitionists, original texts, timelines, and more.
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University committee appointed in 2003 at Brown University to investigate institutional involvement in the early slave trade. Site contains significant resources, including a series of reports and teaching materials. The committee released its final report in October 2006.
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Site concerned with the history of Bunce Island, a British slave castle in Sierra Leone.
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California State University - Sacramento library website on the little-known California branch of the Underground Railroad.
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Website of anti-trafficking center established in Perm, Russia; includes both Russian- and English-language materials.
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This site provides documents and images for learning about "fugitive from labor" cases and black soldiers in the Civil War. The site includes Civil War photos by Mathew Brady and letters, telegrams, and photos illustrating factors that affected the Civil War.
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Digitized texts of early twentieth-century scholarship on slavery; provided free of charge by a commercial company, Dinsmore Documentation. Includes selections from Journal of Negro History.
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Activist US anti-slavery organization.
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Website on Florida citrus slavery and Department of Justice prosecutions.
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A Los Angeles-based anti-trafficking organization.
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English-language translation of the 1685 French <em>Code Noir</em>; from George Mason University.
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English-language translation of the 1685 French <em>Code Noir</em>; published by Washington State University - Vancouver.
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French-language site concerning contemporary slavery in France and the world; includes legal reports on slavery prosecutions in France.
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A two-portal website, with a French-language portion for the Comite contre l'Esclavage Moderne and a multilingual site on Victims of Trafficking. Sponsored by the Daphne Program of the European Commission. The Comite site has up-to-date news on trafficking; the second site area provides information on NGOs working on issues of trafficking.
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Site of official French governmental commission for memorialization of slavery and its abolition.
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Reports of the official French commission on public education concerning the history of slavery.
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Website on the history of the Underground Railroad, the Amistad case, and more; sponsored by the Connecticut Historical Commission.
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A US-based NGO committed to ending human trafficking and modern day slavery by advancing the rule of law and equity for women and children in South Asia.
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University of Virginia electronic exhibit on three antislavery revolts; includes digital documents.
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Focuses on enslaved Africans and their descendants living in the Chesapeake region of Virginia during the colonial and antebellum periods. The site provides analyses of artifacts, deposits, and architectural plans from different sites, including Monticello, Mount Vernon, Stratford Hall, and Williamsburg.
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A resource page on the history of US slavery, organized chronologically; useful for basic subject education.
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A 2002 report on forced labor in Burma, based on interviews with forced laborers.
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Syllabus of Boston College course in editing antislavery poems, taught by Alan Richardson. Provides online examples of annotated antislavery poetry.
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National Archives website with enlargeable digital images of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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This site features maps, documents, and images for learning about the Lewis and Clark expedition, the growth of regionalism, the Amistad case, Lincoln's "spot resolutions," the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the petition of Amelia Bloomer regarding suffrage in the West, migration north to Alaska and the Sioux Treaty of 1868.
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An educational site on the Amistad Revolt.
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Site introducing issues relating to contemporary slavery, slave-like conditions, and sexual slavery; produced and maintained at Brandeis University; includes materials in Arabic.
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An interactive online game that enables participants to trace routes of the Underground Railroad. Located at Bowdoin College.
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Section of the Holocaust Encyclopedia on forced labor during the World War II era, including streaming video interviews with survivors and links to further materials on the subject.
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An online exhbition on the Soviet gulag system, organized by the Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
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Review essay.
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National Park Service website for Douglass' historic home in Anacostia, District of Columbia.
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Library of Congress site. Presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
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Website accompanying the Indiana University project for the scholarly editing of the papers of Frederick Douglass.
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Digitization project at University of Rochester for the papers of Frederick Douglass; includes materials for teachers.
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A non-profit organization seeking to end slavery worldwide. Provides reputable field reports.
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University of Maryland site accompanying its 30 year-old and pioneering documentation publishing project on emancipation and its social aftermath. Site contains many sample digital documents.
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Website containing records of the post-emancipation Freedmen's Bureau.
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A 2005 report from the Human Rights Center at University of California - Berkeley on forced labor in California during 1998-2003.
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The first African American newspaper, established in 1827. Digitization provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Informational website maintained by the International Organisation for Migration, regarding administration of the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme established by German law in 2000 for compensation of slave labor. Site in English, French, German, and Spanish, with activity updates.
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A collection of over 200 digitized documents on slavery, abolition, and post-emancipation. Includes extensive materials on Frederick Douglass.
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Updated information on transatlantic slavery studies at Yale University.
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The H-Slavery discussion list seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation.
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Interpretive historical center in Hartford, Connecticut, devoted to the legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'
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A collection of 15 documents and a brief resource guide to books and online resources, created by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition with the assistance and cooperation of Jean Fagin Yellin.
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Located at Pace University, the project is engaged in producing a scholarly edition of the papers of Harriet Jacobs.
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Significant collection of digital resources concerning the African diaspora; based at the Department of History at York University.
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The Harriet Wilson Project seeks to raise awareness of Harriet Wilson and her literary work, and to educate the public on her contribution to American history and literature.
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A 2004 report from the Human Rights Center at University of California - Berkeley and the Free the Slaves organization, concerning contemporary trafficking and slavery in the United States.
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French-language site, with some English, on the history of slavery in Martinique; includes educational materials.
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Second issue of History Now (December 2004), an online history journal sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center; devoted to primary documents of slavery; a good teaching resource.
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Project of the Schomburg Center for Black Culture, tracing African American migrations. Deals significantly with slavery.
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A 2005 investigative report on contemporary Brazilian slavery, by Osha Gray Davidson in Rolling Stone Magazine.
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A leading British research center in slavery studies, located at University of Nottingham.
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Extensive report by the International Labour Office providing quantative data on the phenonena of forced labor and trafficking. Published May 2005.
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A French-language teaching site on the history of slavery and abolition, with digital documents.
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Ukrainian, Russian, and English-language site on trafficking, forced labor, and its victims in the Ukraine.
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An electronic presentation developed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition.
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A 2007-2008 photography exhibition by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, included many antebellum images of slaves and ex-slaves.
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A set of letters written from Liberia during 1834-1835 and 1857-1866 by ex-slaves sponsored by the American Colonization Society. Project of the Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia.
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French-language site on the history of slavery. The Association has an extensive list of its educational publications.
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Website provides unique visual resources relating to the antislavery movement, from holdings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The site has the best available digital portrait collection of antislavery personalities.
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Searchable database on cultural images of slavery; created and maintained at Universitat Trier.
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Permanant exhibition and website at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool (UK) on the transatlantic slave trade, including audio file readings of Olaudah Equiano and others.
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Companion website to a PBS documentary on the Nat Turner revolt.
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Dutch-language site in the Netherlands for the National Monument of Slavery History.
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Opened in August 2004, a national center dedicated to the history of slavery, freedom, and contemporary civil rights.
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Lesson plan on mid-nineteenth-century antislavery, with digital documents for study; appropriate for secondary students. Produced by Old Sturbridge Village.
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Electronic resources of the National Park Service relating to the Underground Railroad.
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Historic home of Underground Railroad operator and antislavery journalist Owen Lovejoy; presently a museum.
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A bicentennial site on the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, produced by the British House of Lords. Contains audiio readings of antislavery materials and large numbers of digitized parliamentary records.
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Located at University of North Carolina at Greensboro and directed by Loren Schweninger, the Project has collected approximately 3,000 legislative petitions, 15,500 county court petitions, and over 100,000 pages of documentary evidence relating to slavery. The database is in an easy-to-access format and recommended for research purposes.
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A skillfully-designed, heavily-researched, and deep history education site on the Black Seminoles and their revolt against slavery.
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Discusses the international sex trafficking industry, including the women and girls who work as entertainment girls, hospitality girls, prostitutes, and massage girls.
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A Smithsonian Institution website based on the book 'Remembering Slavery.' It features RealAudio sound files of the voices of former slaves, recorded in the early twentieth century.
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Digital home of one of the richest collections of antislavery materials, originally gathered by abolitionist Samuel J. May and donated to Cornell University. Excellent site for information searches.
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Furman University digitization project with editorials on the Nebraska Bill, the caning of Sumner, Dred Scott, and Harper's Ferry.
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Recent slavery studies essay.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison site provides raw data and documentation of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade.
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UNESCO project established in 1999 to document the Atlantic slave trade. Project sponsored numerous digitization initiatives; now complete.
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A 1995 Duke University exhibit of rare documents relating to slavery.
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Guide to online materials relating to slavery; online images and sound file section especially useful; created and maintained at the Library of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
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Bibliography and electronic resources list on history of slavery in the District of Columbia.
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PBS documentary website on the history of US slavery, with streaming media and substantial information.
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Database of slave insurance records; maintained by California state government by legislative provision.
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Website accompanying the PBS series 'Slavery in America'. Contains extensive literature and teaching resources; note the 'Roads to Freedom' multimedia section on means by which slaves gained freedom.
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State-by-state exploration of the history of slavery in northern US states.
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Collection of electronic resources on slavery from Sue Peabody, associate professor of history at Washington State University.
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Collection of approximately 100 digitized rare pamphlets and books documenting the US legal history of slavery; produced by the Library of Congress.
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A collection of a thousand digital images related to the slave trade and slavery, assembled by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library.
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Washington University electronic exhibition on the Dred Scott case.
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