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Woman Suffrage Documents

Slavery Documents

Read the documents carefully, asking yourself the following questions:

Who wrote or created this document?

Who was the intended reader or audience of this document? Who might have been the unintended audience?

When was it written?

What sort of document is it? Is it a personal letter, a newspaper article, a government document, a speech, a pamphlet? Can you find a specific date for it or place it within a particular decade?

Why was this document written? Under what circumstances was it written and what was its purpose?