The African-German Philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo Returns to His Home Region in West Africa to Become a Sage and (Possibly) a Goldsmith
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Illustration: Petrus Camper’s Measurement of the Skull of a Negro Male
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the beautiful and the sublime
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Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Free Mulatto, and Her White Cousin, the Lady Elizabeth Murray, Great-Nieces of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
The Replevin of Elizabeth Freeman (Also Known as Mum Bett)
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The Journey of Ona Judge, Enslaved Servant of Martha Washington, Wife of President George Washington
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For the First of Several Times, Belinda Sutton, Former Enslaved Servant of the House of Isaac Royall, Petitions the Massachusetts General Court for a Pension in Her Old Age
Felix (of Unknown Last Name) Writes the First of Several Petitions That Will Be Offered by Africans to the Massachusetts General Court, Asking for the Freedom of All Slaves
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lemuel haynes, a future minister, a formerly indentured servant, and son of an englishwoman and an african, joins the minutemen of his town
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Fragment #2: First Draft of an Extant Letter, Abigail Adams, Boston, to John Adams, Philadelphia
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Salem Poor Fights at the Battle of Bunker Hill
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Fragment #3: First Draft of an Extant Letter, Phillis Wheatley, Providence, to General George Washington, Cambridge Headquarters
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Lord Dunmore Decides to Offer Freedom to Slaves to Fight in Support of His Majesty, King George III
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General George Washington Allows the Enlistment of Free (though Not Enslaved) Negroes in the Continental Army
142
General George Washington Rereads a Poem and Letter He Received from Phillis Wheatley, and Agonizes Over His Response
143
Smallpox Decimates the Ranks of Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, Camped on Land and Sea by the Colony of Virginia
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An Issue of Mercy #3
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Harry Washington, a Negro Runaway Formerly Belonging to George Washington, Sails on L’Abondence, Bound for Port Roseway, Nova Scotia
