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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, Caster Freeman served as a private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Camp Highland, Jan. 1780
A letter confirming a soldier's payment from war.
Slavery in the old Northwest
Historical aspect of the system of slavery in the upper part of the United States. How it dehumanized individuals and families.
Receipt for the sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1, and all future children
This receipt displays the details of the purchase for two slaves- a mother and her son- and all of her future children. In total. Judge S. Williams of Eufaula paid six hundred dollars.
The Representation of the Brig 'Vigilante'
Image description of how cramped and horrible the conditions were for slaves on ships in the Atlantic Ocean. These ships would carry 345 slaves and would sit in uncomfortable postures for most of the trip.
Come and dance to night
Displays the lyrics to a song sung and written by slaves once their work days were over
Sugar Plantation, Louisiana, 1873-74
Shows enslaved African Americans being watched over by a white overseer as they work in a sugar cane field
Am I not a man and a brother?
The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for…
Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833.
The broadside declaration is illustrated with a headpiece of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion as two astonished elders look on. Beneath the woodcut is the line, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou…
A prayer
A short prayer composed by a student at Atlanta Baptist College in response to racial troubles in Georgia in 1899.
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