1820 Missouri Compromise

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The Dred Scott Decision by The History Channel

Frederick Douglass was a fugitive slave who became an abolitionist and Civil Rights leader

Phillis Wheatley was a slave who became the first African American poet to publish a book.

Crispus Attucks was a fugitive slave and the first to die in the Boston Massacre. He is considered the first hero of the American Revolution.