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Harriet Tubman: the "Moses" of Her Time

9th - Higher Ed
Aside from helping her family (and thousands more) escape slavery, she led troops in combat, cured a disease, and was generally way more of a rebel than history generally portrays her as.



She lived a remarkably full life,...
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Alex Haley: Author of 'Roots' and 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'

9th - Higher Ed
Alex Haley served in the U.S. Coast Guard for two decades before pursuing a career as a writer.



He eventually helmed a series of interviews for Playboy magazine and later co-authored The Autobiography of M
alcolm X.
The...
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A&E Television

History.com: Slavery in America

9th - 10th
Video looks at the history of slavery in America including how it started, the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on slavery, abolition, the slavery debate as the nation expanded westward, the Civil War, and the aftermath of...