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Loc: African American Odyssey: Free Blacks in Antebellum Period PrimaryLoc: African American Odyssey: Free Blacks in Antebellum Period Primary
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Library of Congress
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9th - 10th
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Loc: African American Odyssey: Free Blacks in Antebellum Period

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A site that chronicles through documents the accomplishments of African-Americans, both slave and free, from colonial times through the Civil War.

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