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known as the "Hiawatha Belt", this type of wampum was named for one of the leaders who helped form the confederation.

A poem written to urge women to support nonimportation movements.

Letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, requesting he "remember the ladies" when creating the new form of government.

Boston newspaper slave liberation print

A historical analysis and firsthand account by Martin Van Buren, exploring the emergence and evolution of political parties in the United States.

This paper describes the efforts of women to raise money to help fund the American Revolution.

1808 advertisement of Wet Nurse for sale in Norfolk Gazette

An image of cotton field. Being patrolled by the white master while slaves pick cotton

Book from 1895 with anecdotes from white women on life in Virginia before the Civil War