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A pioneer settlement on Lake Erie, Sandusky, Ohio was an important depot on the Underground Railroad's freedom trail.

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Under the guise of nature research, Dr. Ross visited plantations where black slaves lived. He helped many make an escape to the Underground Railroad and freedom

Riding the wave of victory in the War of 1812, the United States expanded into Spanish controlled Florida and encountered the Seminole Nation.

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Emancipation began as a gradual process that culminated in Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, starting a path toward full social and political equality.

The Treaty of Ft. Jackson took 26 million acres of land away from the Creek Nation, but a determined band of Creek moved to Florida and continued to resist.

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South Carolina's response to perceived onerous federal taxation led to one of the first major sectional conflicts in U.S. history and helped sow the seeds of civil war.

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African-American author Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is quite literally awash in its water-related themes.

The Bodwin house . . . the loving, comfortable mid-1800's Ohio home of an upstanding abolitionist Quaker man and his sister-and a most despicable objet d'art.

Rio Grande do Sul is known for its pursuits of separatism. In 1835 this led to the Revolução Farroupilha, or Guerra dos Farrapos, and the Riograndense Republic.

Born in a log cabin, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and competence an uninspiring man could rise to greatness.

Years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Northerners and Southerners were sharply divided over whether the territories taken from Mexico should be opened to slavery.

At first rejected, African American men eventually made up about 10% of all Union forces in the American Civil War. Their contribution was crucial to the North's victory.

There is little doubt that owners and overseers exercised strict control over slaves on the plantation. However, slave patrols were needed to provide regional oversight.

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