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1799 Historic Courthouse
Letter to the EditorA letter put in the Times and Seasons newspaper in Nauvoo, IL discussing R. H. Kinnamon's recent mission to Virginia. In the letter Kinnamon reports…
Higginson, passage on south causing war, p.509In this passage Higginson describes the results of the 1860 election and the context around who had agency to make any change in the country at the…
Higginson, passage on Emancipation Proclamation, p.524Passage in which the author introduces the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, History of the United States (excerpt on Lincoln's Inaugural, p.513)Passage where the author introduces Lincoln's Inaugural address.
Peyton Randolph (grandson of John Randolph Jr.), Virginia Governor (1811-1812)Peyton Randolph, Governor of Virginia from 1811 to 1812. Painted in 1806. Original on display since February 2014 at Wilton House Museum, Richmond,…
This letter is written by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to John Page. Within the letter Jefferson discusses a plan to send freed slaves to Sierra Leone…
Thomas Jefferson to George TuckerA letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Tucker on the future of African-Americans in America and the inevitability of racial conflict.
Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse LetterDetails regarding Jefferson's vaccination "experiment" on his plantation.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of VirginiaThomas Jefferson answers a question regarding slavery. Here he delineates the physical and mental reasons for the inferiority of black people, and,…