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Lesson 1: Slavery and Free Negroes, 1800 to 1860

Students will expand their knowledge of slavery, an institution of labor that varied considerably depending on time and place. They will recognize what slavery was like in Virginia and particularly in Fairfax County in the antebellum period, and gain an understanding of the skills of and choices made by African Americans both as slaves and as free people.

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