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Online Resources
We are pleased to present to you some of the best sites we've found for understanding Black history prior to the Civil War.
Bethel Burying Ground Project
by Terry Buckalew
An Online Exhibit on the Institute for Colored Youth
by Falvey Library at Villanova University
The Peter Mott House
By the Lawnside Historic Society
The Colored Conventions Project
The Story of the Ganges Families - Over 118 People from Senegambia who were Set Free Upon Arrival in Philadelphia in 1800
By Micheal Kearney
Black Power! Black History of 19th Century Newark, NJ
by the New Jersey Historical Commission
The Genius of Freedom
Northern Black Activism and Uplift after the Civil War
by the Library Company of Philadelphia
Last Seen
Finding Family After Slavery
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