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Abolitionists, Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves: Surviving Slavery in Maryland

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the groups of people who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the mid-1800s and fought against slavery: the Quakers, former slaves, and fugitive slaves. This article describes the efforts of both whites and blacks, who...
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Houghton Mifflin College: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an analysis of the work of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883 CE) and explanations as to why much of Truth's work hasn't appeared in conventional American Literature anthologies.