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A power canal system in this important cotton town.
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After gaining her freedom, Truth preached about abolitionism and equal rights for all.
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Having witnessed slavery and racism, he wrote an Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World that urged African Americans to fight for freedom and equality.
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A rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia.
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The first organization of American wage earners on a national scale.
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He traveled north by train and boat from Baltimore, through Delaware, to Philadelphia.
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Short-lived utopian experiment in communal living.
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He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin
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The first women's rights convention in the US, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement
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A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life