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"The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the British Empire

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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas

Lincoln did not free enslaved people; enslaved people freed themselves. Lincoln may have signed a piece of paper called the Emancipation Proclamation, but he did not believe enslaved people were equal. — Read the rest


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