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Text on a presentation slide discussing the impact of the Declaration of Independence on the anti-slavery movement.
Text on paper discussing slavery and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, including a survey question.
Text from a presentation on Thomas Paine's views on slavery and the Declaration of Independence's impact on the Civil War.
Text on a webpage about the Declaration of Independence and its principles related to liberty and justice.

Voices of Protest: Colonial Era through the Founding

Text on a presentation slide discussing the impact of the Declaration of Independence on the anti-slavery movement.
Germantown Friends Protest Against Slavery, 1688
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Text on paper discussing slavery and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, including a survey question.
John Woolman, “Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”, 1754
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Text from a presentation on Thomas Paine's views on slavery and the Declaration of Independence's impact on the Civil War.
Thomas Paine, “African Slavery in America”, 1775
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Text on a webpage about the Declaration of Independence and its principles related to liberty and justice.
The Declaration of Independence as approved by the Continental Congress, 1776
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Document titled "Primary Source" with a petition to the Massachusetts Legislature from January 13, 1777.
Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, January 13, 1777
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Image of a document outlining primary sources related to slavery and the Declaration of Independence.
Elizabeth (Mumbet) Freeman portrait, 1811 and Legal notes by Chief Justice William Cushing about the Quock Walker case, 1783
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Document titled "Primary Source" discussing Belinda Sutton's petition to end slavery, linked to the Declaration of Independence.
Belinda Sutton, Petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783
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Document titled "Primary Source" discussing the Pennsylvania Society's 1790 petition to abolish slavery.
Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, 1790
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A document titled "Primary Source" discussing correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791.
Correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791
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