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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.
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.
Tags: Atlantic Crossing, Middle Passage, Ships, slave trade, slavery, Vigilante
William H. Todd finds his mother, age 100, after 40-year separation
William H. Todd, Washington Court House, OH, finds his mother in Macon, GA, after writing to people in the South for many years in search of her.
Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe
A Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe warning him of Gabriel’s Conspiracy after two enslaves men owned by Moore leaked the conspiracy.
Horrid Massacre in Virginia
A composite of scenes illustrating Nat Turner's Rebellion
Tags: insurgency, nat turner, rebellion, slavery, uprisings, virginia
Modes of Punishing Slaves
The image shows two people being punished with different devices. One is being punished using a heavy iron collar, and another long wooden boards fastened around the necm.
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…
Tags: Abolition, Abolition movement, anti-slavery, slavery
Thomas Jefferson, December 3, 1792, Fugitive Slaves
Individuals of Georgia entered the State of Florida and took enslaved people that they claimed were theirs back to Georgia.
American Colonization Society to James Madison. Membership Certificate
A certificate verifying that James Madison is a member for life of the American Colonization Society
Blow for Blow
This picture depicts a slave uprising against his master
Tags: anti-slavery, Civil War, rebellion, slavery, United States, uprisings
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