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Bell Rack on model, Museum Mobile, Ala.
The bell rack. Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go through foliage or trees. It was attached around the neck as…
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…
To the colored men of voting age in the southern states.
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on p. [1]: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, Cheyney, Pa. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA…
Gouverneur Morris / H.B. Hall.
1 print : engraving. | Gouverneur Morris, half-length portrait, facing right.
Slavery in America
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American.
Come and dance to night
Displays the lyrics to a song sung and written by slaves once their work days were over
Hunting Indians in Florida with Bloodhounds
A dramatization of tactics used by Zachary Taylor against the Seminole Indians. In this image, American soldiers are searching for fleeing Seminoles with help of bloodhounds. The American troops are on horseback and foot traveling through the carnage…
Cross-section of French Slave Ship L'Aurore
This image shows both an overhead view, and a view as if the ship was cut in half, and allows an understanding of the operation of the ship to its viewers.
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