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History
African American History
African American history is broad and deep. While too vast to list all aspects, the links below provide key insight into various highlights.
Colonial Period
African Americans in St. Augustine, FL 1565-1821
https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/african-americans-in-st-augustine-1565-1821.htm
PBS - Why Slaves escaped to Florida for asylum
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/secrets-spanish-florida-slaves-escaped-florida-asylum/3647/
History of Fort Mose (Florida)
https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-fort-mose
Project 1619
https://www.project1619.org/
The 1619 Project - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/
magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
National Geographic -New England Colonies' Use of Slavery
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/new-england-colonies-use-slaves/
Slaves in New Amsterdam
https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nys09.soc.k-6.statloc.slaves/slaves-in-new-amsterdam/
19th Century
National Park Service - National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1205/index.htm
Library of Congress - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936 to 1938
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about
National Park Service - Black Homesteaders
https://www.nps.gov/home/black-homesteading-in-america.htm
National Park Service - Reconstruction Era
https://www.nps.gov/reer/learn/historyculture/historyculture.htm
Equal Justice Initiative - Reconstruction in America-Racial Violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876
https://eji.org/report/reconstruction-in-america/
20th Century
National Archives - The Great Migration
https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations/great-migration
Red Summer - The Race Riots of 1919
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/red-summer
NMAAHC - A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance
National Office
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
P. O. Box 73067
Washington, DC 20056-3067
202.234.5350
info@aahgs.org
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