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As Hamer and her associates prepared to leave, they saw that police officers had surrounded the old school bus in which they had traveled to the courthouse. Hamer later described the scene in vivid detail: “By the time the eighteen of us going in two by two had finished taking the literacy test—now there’s people, mind you, there that day with
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John Quincy Adams' complex evolution toward abolitionism and his moral stand against slavery's corruption of American principles
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice For what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin It perverts human reason and reduces men endowed with logical
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It was at Harpers Ferry that the abolitionist John Brown decided to liberate America’s slaves and set up a new nation of his own in northwestern Virginia, which was a pretty ambitious undertaking considering that he had an army of just twenty-one people. To that end, on October 16, 1859, he and his little group stole into town under cover of
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