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Defintions

Patronizing

To talk to someone or behave in a way that shows that you believe you are more intelligent or better than them

Perpetuate

To preserve and push forward an idea or belief so that it continues indefinitely

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Sources & Additional Resources

“Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disenfranchisement, To the People of Pennsylvania.” Historical Society of Pennsylvania
“Blackstone’s Commentaries of the Laws of England.” Yale Law School Library, Avalon Project.
Gates Jr, H.L. “Who Led The First Back To Africa Movement?.” Public Broadcast Service.
“Gerrit Smith biography”. Syracuse University Library
Grolier. “History of Women’s Suffrage”. Scholastic.
“Quick Revolutionary War Tour 1765-1777.” USHistory.org
“Robert Purvis biography." Black Past, (Women’s Issues/Topics)
“The United States Constitution”. U.S. Government Archives, (Charters of Freedom)
"Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery." The Gildern Lehrman Institute of American History.
Green, William D. "Minnesota's Long Road to Black Suffrage 1849 - 1868." Minnesota History Magazine.