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1. Exploring Amistad
   This site explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it.
   http: //amistad.mysticseaport.org/welcome.html
   
   
2. Slave Ships
   An estimated 15 million Africans were transported to the Americas between 1540 and 1850. To maximize their profits slave merchants carried as many slaves as was physically possible on their ships...
   http: //spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASships.htm...
   
   
3. Joseph Gurney
   Joseph Gurney was born in Norwich on 2nd August, 1788. Joseph was the tenth child of John Gurney, a successful banker and a prominent member of the Society of Friends..
   http: //spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAgurney.htm
   
   
4. African American Journey: Missouri Compromise
   Missouri Compromise was a plan agreed upon by the United States Congress in 1820 to settle the debate over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase area.
   http: //worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh041.h...
   
   
5. Josephine Ruffin
   Josephine St. Pierre, was born in Boston on 31st August, 1842. Her mother was a white woman and her father had been born in Martinique
   http: //spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASruffin.ht...
   
   
6. Slave Quarters on St. Georges Island
   These dwellings, located on Florida's St Georges Island in the Gulf of Mexico, are typical plantation slave quarters.
   http: //web-cr05.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1540.html...
   
   
7. Arthur Tappan
   Helped fund several anti-slavery journals and in 1831 helped establish America's first Anti-Slavery Society..
   http: //spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAStappanA.h...
   
   
8. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
   The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers and abolitionists
   http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...
   
   
9. Amistad
   Amistad. An illustrated account of the 19th-century slave ship rebellion.
   http: //cultures.com/features/amistad/index.htm...
   
   

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