"Learn more about the business of slavery by exploring four historic documents from the United States slave trade."

Explore the evolution of citizenship and how African American activists helped define it

Through infographics and newspaper clippings, explore the role that family and kinship ties played in helping enslaved people cope with the condition of slavery, as well as what challenges people faced with finding and rebuilding their

Examine the motives of the U.S.-Dakota War through the writings of a Dakota leader and the citizens of New Ulm, Minnesota.

Explore how constitutional amendments conflicted with reality for African American people following the Civil War, giving rise to the Civil Rights Movement a century after emancipation.

How did life change for formerly enslaved people after emancipation? How did it stay the same?