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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

Growth of a Nation - 1789-1830

An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into Any Port or Place, 1808
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1800-1831)
From Slavery to Freedom
African American History Online: A Resource Guide
Harvard University Library - Working Women, 1800-1930
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) (c. 1745-1797)
Rebecca Warren Brown Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear
A Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815...Aged 65 Years. By a Lady of Boston.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Thomas Jefferson On Slavery

"Thomas Jefferson, three-quarter length portrait, seated at table, facing left"

(Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)