A diverse and divided people. The women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants and others who made up the antebellum republic.
The People
The many Americans who lived through the antebellum decades.
print — womenWomen's lives, work and the first stirrings of the women's movement.
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portrait — Black HawkNative nations in an age of removal and broken treaties.
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print — African AmericansEnslaved and free Black Americans in the decades before the war.
Read more →The new arrivals who reshaped the cities and the workforce.
Read more →The many other communities that made up a diverse nation.
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