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Colonist holding 13 colonies flag

A depiction of the first shots fired during the Boston Massacre, killing Crispus, Attucks.

Students and teachers present in a Dame School.

Women protesting through The Daughters of Liberty

Daughters of Liberty

A page of the Stamp Act that argues that the colonists cannot be subject to taxation without representation in British Parliment.

African Americans picking cotton in the U.S. South in 1887. Wood engraving from a drawing by Horace Bradley

A nonimportation document signed by 51 women from Edenton, North Carolina in 1774

This is a photo of a public school classroom in Revolutionary America in the 18th and 19th century, filled with mostly boys.