Twenty three black slaves assembled on the night of April 6, 1812 set fire to several buildings and while the fires were being extinguished they attacked killing nine whites by knives, gun shots and beatings, six additional whites were wounded. ... Groups of twenty slaves probably in protest of the Security Act passed in mid August, meet at the Stono river, and attacked a store arming them and killing the two white shopkeepers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Harlem, a neighborhood of New York City and Compton, California are two areas in the United States that have fallen victim to racial discrimination and marginalization. During the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, well-educated African-American people began producing literature that explained the hor...

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The sectional division between North and South had widened enormously by the mid - 1800's. ... We have hated and persecuted the Negro we have scourged him out of the temple of justice by the Dred Scott decision we have shot and hanged his friends at Harper's Ferry we have enacted laws for his further degradation, and even to expel him from the borders of some of our States we have joined in the infernal chase to hunt him down like a beast, and fling him into the hell of slavery we have repealed and trampled upon laws designed to prevent the spread of slavery and in a thousand ways gi...

• Word Count: 4026
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• Grade Level: High School