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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Nineteenth-century accounts and twentieth-century recollections by former slaves of the absence of and obstacles to education for African Americans. Links to narratives of freed and newly freed slaves are provided.
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Black Past

Black Past: First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
The encyclopedia entry about the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia,tells about the opportunities for both black slaves and freemen in this integrated church in the Antebellum South.