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Photographic montage of lawmakers who voted aye for the Thirteenth Amendment Photo of slave collar, chain, bearing the owner's name
The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History
by Eric Foner		 The Material Culture of Slave Resistance
by Douglas R. Egerton
Cover page from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Written by himself Emancipation by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1863
The Slave Narratives: A Genre and a Source
by David W. Blight 		When the Past Speaks to the Present: A Cautionary Tale about Evidence
by Annette Gordon-Reed
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