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Likely written during or shortly after the Civil War, these song lyrics depict Southern patriotism and duty to maintaining a certain way of life. Using melodic rhymes and repetition, the author emphasizes Southern manhood, justified violence and supposedly benign slavery.

This document illustrates the ways in which the Massachusetts colony created a legal framework for slavery, reflecting religious and race-based reasoning.

Juni teaches her friend Michael all she knows about the first Memorial Day—the day when thousands of black people marched to remember their loved ones who had died in the Civil War.

The newspaper article briefly describes the heroism of an enslaved woman, her emancipation, her marriage to her former enslaver and her life after he died.

This spiritual illustrates the relationship between Christian allusions and resisting enslavement on a physical and spiritual level.

In his editorial, Douglass argues that the Mexican War was a mechanism to expand slavery.

The Militia Act paved the way for the Emancipation Proclamation, but it also illustrates inequality and reflects perspectives of white supremacy.

In 1916, one family battled against the unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry. In doing so, they lent their own voices to the growing chorus of Asian Americans insisting: "We belong here."