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Freedom's Flowering
Africans taken to America resisted slavery from the very first, a struggle traced in a Library Company exhibition.
By Stephan Salisbury
Inquirer Culture Writer
Posted on Thu, Apr. 10, 2008
Virtually from the moment the first enslaved African was brought to American shores, black resistance to slavery began.
Sporadic rebellions broke out north and south in the 18th century. Individual slaves sought to flee their captivity.
Some managed to buy their own freedom - and then help those remaining in bondage to escape...MORE
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