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Virginia Center for Digital History: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia PrimaryVirginia Center for Digital History: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia Primary
Publisher
University of Virginia
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Virginia Center for Digital History: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

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A digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves in the period before the American Civil War. In addition, there are historical documents related to slavery. Gives the option of browsing or doing a detailed search. Includes some teaching materials.

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Concepts

fugitive slaves, slave resistance

Additional Tags

escaped slaves, indentured servants, primary source documents, runaway slaves, slave life, slave punishments, slavery system, fugitive slave act of 1793, ohio h.ci.4, slave advertisements, underground railroad, virginia runaways

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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