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Text excerpt discussing the impact of the Declaration of Independence on ending slavery and its relation to the Civil War.
Document titled "Primary Source" discussing slavery and the Declaration of Independence, from the U.S. Congress, 1807.
Text document outlining the Missouri Compromise and its relation to the Declaration of Independence and slavery.
Text from a presentation titled "Primary Source" discussing John C. Calhoun's 1837 speech on abolition petitions.

Slavery and the coming of the Civil War

Text excerpt discussing the impact of the Declaration of Independence on ending slavery and its relation to the Civil War.
Ohio State Constitution, 1803 and Black Code, 1804
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Document titled "Primary Source" discussing slavery and the Declaration of Independence, from the U.S. Congress, 1807.
U.S. Congress: An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, 1807 
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Text document outlining the Missouri Compromise and its relation to the Declaration of Independence and slavery.
U.S. Congress: An Act to Authorize the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government (Missouri Compromise), 1820
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Text from a presentation titled "Primary Source" discussing John C. Calhoun's 1837 speech on abolition petitions.
John C. Calhoun, Speech on Abolition Petitions, 1837
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Text from a webpage titled "Primary Source" discussing George Fitzhugh's work and its relation to slavery and the Civil War.
George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854
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Document describing the principles of the Declaration of Independence and their relation to slavery and the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
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Text discussing the principles of the Declaration of Independence and their connection to ending slavery.
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, 1853
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Text from a document about Harriet Jacobs and the impact of the Declaration of Independence on ending slavery.
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1860
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Text discussing the Dred Scott v. Sandford case and its connection to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393, 1856
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