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An excerpt from the 1706 Church Act, South Carolina.

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An enslaved woman auctioned for sale, The Illustrated London News, Richmond, Virginia, 1856, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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An enslaved woman auctioned for sale, The Illustrated London New, Richmond, Virginia, 1856, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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An enslaved domestic worker and her charge, Bryan Burnes, 1909, courtesy of Documenting the American South.

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An African American woman reading to her son, circa 1940s, courtesy of Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

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Amerigo Vespucci leads an attack on Amerindians on the island of "Ity" (location uncertain, possibly Bermuda), on his first journey to the New World in 1497, engraving by Theodor de Bry, ca. 1592.

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American Colonization Society Membership Certificate, American Colonization Society, 1833, Courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Amelia Earhart, October 1932, Anita Pollitzer Family Papers, South Carolina Historical Society.

A photograph of Amelia Earhart standing in the front yard of a home in a dark long-sleeved dress.

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