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Wed, 03.01.1780

The State of Pennsylvania Abolishes Slavery

On this date in 1780, Pennsylvania became the second American state to abolish slavery.

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Inquirer.com

Battlefiels.org

Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1

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Poetry Corner

You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?... STILL I RISE by Maya Angelou.
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