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Harper's Ferry insurrection - Interior of the Engine-House, just before the gate is broken down by the storming party - Col. Washington and his associates as captives, held by Brown as hostages
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What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July
The text of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech
The Impending Crisis
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The assigned reading is pp. 51-62.
U.S. History
Authors: P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction
Sections located at: 14 Introduction https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/14-introduction; 14.1 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/14-1-the-compromise-of-1850; 14.2 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/14-2-the-kansas-nebraska-act-and-the-republican-party; 14.3 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/14-3-the-dred-scott-decision-and-sectional-strife; 14.4 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/14-4-john-brown-and-the-election-of-1860
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The text of Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech, "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?"
Author: Frederick Douglass
Source: Digital Public Library of America (via Minnesota Digital Library), http://dp.la/item/815b52395f207c348c8739c5dc3b982c
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Author: David Morris Potter, Don Edward Fehrenbacher
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