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    40 Acres Given to 1200 Former Chattel Slaves, Then Taken Away

    By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former...

    How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

    Farrell Evans, history.com During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African...
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    New York City’s Infamous Civil War Draft Riots

    by Suzanne SpellenThere is nothing more frightening than a mob, nothing more uncontrollable than...

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