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Colonial America
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Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.
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During the American Revolution, the British offered emancipation to any enslaved person who fought on their side. This military tactic infuriated the Patriots and caused pandemonium on the southern plantations as thousands of slaves escaped and joined the British Army or sought refuge behind enemy lines.
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― Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
― Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
