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  2. Edward McPherson - Wikipedia

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    Edward McPherson (July 31, 1830 – December 14, 1895) was an American newspaper editor and politician who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives, as well as multiple terms as the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

  3. G. Lynn Nelson - Wikipedia

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    G. Lynn Nelson was an American author and academic notable for his advocacy of young adult writing programs and the implementation of alternative approaches to language study informed by Native American concepts.

  4. The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United ...

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    The work then examines the Haitian Revolution, and the effect it had on U.S. slave owners in the American South. Du Bois concludes his work by analyzing the blockade of Africa and the role of slave-produced cotton in the U.S. economy prior to the American Civil War. In 2014 the work was re-introduced with a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates ...

  5. Boston King - Wikipedia

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    Boston King (c. 1760–1802) was a former American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He later immigrated to Sierra Leone , where he helped found Freetown and became the first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people.

  6. Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia

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    The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania first introduced the proviso in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 , as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War ...

  7. Progress and Poverty - Wikipedia

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    He knew of "nothing more touching, in all the range of our American literature". [16] Holmes also said that "Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man." [17]

  8. Charlotte Forten Grimké - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Charlotte Grimké assisted her husband in his ministry, helping create important networks in the community, including providing charity and education. Many church members were leaders in the African-American community in the capital. She organized a women's missionary group and focused on "racial uplift" efforts.

  9. Every Man a King (autobiography) - Wikipedia

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    Every Man a King (1933) is an autobiography by Huey Long, who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana and as a member of the United States Senate.Aged 39 at the time, Long would be assassinated two years later.

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