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Frederick Douglass

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Valuable Resources for Reseach and Education

Henry County, Iowa - "Were They African-American"?
New Georgia Encyclopedia - a digital view of Georgia's rich history
The Door of No Return - a former slave-trade outpost through which millions of Africans were forced onto slave ships bound for the United States.
Freedmen's Bureau Online - Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
The Tuskegee Study - the Syphillis Study involving 600 Black men
Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1865 and 1866 established to provide basic neccesities for displaced Southerners including newly freed African Americans
Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment
in the District of Co
National Archives and Records Administration
Federal Records that Help Identify Former Enslaved People and Slave Holders

Resources for researching African-American Genealogy and History

Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Co