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  2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin - Wikipedia

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    A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views on slavery.

  3. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United ...

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    The work then examines the Haitian Revolution, and the effect it had on U.S. slave owners in the American South. Du Bois concludes his work by analyzing the blockade of Africa and the role of slave-produced cotton in the U.S. economy prior to the American Civil War. In 2014 the work was re-introduced with a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates ...

  4. Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia

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    Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-04758-X. Morrison, Michael A. (1997). Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2319-8. Nevins, Allan (1947). Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847–1852. New York ...

  5. Jordan Anderson - Wikipedia

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    Jordan Anderson or Jourdon Anderson (December 1825 – April 15, 1905) was an African-American former slave noted for an 1865 letter he dictated, later titled by publishers as "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master".

  6. The Negro Problem (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It covers law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society.

  7. Leaves of Grass - Wikipedia

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    The 1867 edition was intended to be, according to Whitman, "a new & much better edition of Leaves of Grass complete — that unkillable work!" [ 23 ] He assumed it would be the final edition. [ 24 ] The edition, which included the Drum-Taps section, its Sequel , and the new Songs before Parting , was delayed when the binder went bankrupt and ...

  8. Henry W. Grady - Wikipedia

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    Henry Woodfin Grady (May 24, 1850 – December 23, 1889) was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the postbellum South, which Grady referred to as "The New South."

  9. William Graham Sumner - Wikipedia

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    William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American clergyman, social scientist, and neoclassical liberal.He taught social sciences at Yale University, where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology and became one of the most influential teachers at any major school.