Richman_U7A1 Prelude to Civl War

By Gabi_Rich
  • 1 CE

    Citation

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    [Life Membership Certificate for American Colonization Society], ca. 1840. Certificate. American Colonization Society Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Horrid massacre in Virginia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98510363/>. Printers' Picture Gallery. Memorial of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2004668448/>.
  • 1 CE

    Citatoin 2

    Conly, C. F, and G. K Warren, photographer. Frederick Douglass / C.F. Conly, Photographer, 465 Washington St., Boston. [Between 1884 and 1890, from negative taken in 1876] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018651422/> Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson's essays on Manners, Self-reliance,Nature, Friendship. ed by Cleveland, Eunice Jeannette New York, Longmans, Green, 1915. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/15020004/>

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