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 The African American experience includes unspeakable horrors and betrayals, determined resistance, and high achievement. Their rise to full citizenship speaks to the universal truths of the Declaration of Independence. This offering contains such important items as Phillis Wheatley’s poetry, records of slave sales and slave uprisings, runaway slave advertisements, documents related to the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement, and dramatic signed letters from John Brown and Frederick Douglass. Also included, from more recent times, are Jackie Robinson’s discussion of the “Negro vote,” and Alex Haley’s research notes and manuscript drafts for Roots and an unpublished book.
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